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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukic:
1A) Settings > Device > Led Indicator = Will tell you what those colors mean.

2A) Shortcuts which redirects you to playstore.

3A) Check the video above that was posted or root your phone and use Titanium Backup Pro and freeze/delete the apps you don't want.

4A) You can pull down your notification window even when you are on your lock screen and yes you can set some of it.

EDIT: 5A) Check Wanam/Xposed. This needs root.

6A) Check Wanam/Xposed. This needs root.

7A) I use g-mail app and under options you can uncheck the option to load images only when connected to wifi so it will load images even without wifi.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marth:
thats really weird, I dont have an option for more settings on my stock email app. I have account settings, then under display settings, it shows display, composing and sending, auto advance, confirm deletions, priority senders, spam addresses, rules for filtering and split view mode. No other option for more settings or how often I want my mail being checked.

[MENTION=4510131]ukic[/MENTION]

thank you for your help now lol. However, some of your answers dont make sense to me. To change the icon locations in the status bar, you said hold down the icons. However when I do it, notification center gets pulled down. Im guessing I need root for this?

and I tried using the gmail app, and I do like it, I would just prefer if I could change the default inbox to be set to all mail. Any way I can do this?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Limeybastard:
Under account settings press your finger on your email address. The below should screen should appear.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marth:
Thank you very much!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Limeybastard:
No worries, I am still learning. It is like being in a foreign country and not understanding the language when coming from IOS devices.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukic:
Sorry was thinking of too many things at the same time, updated answer > 5A) Check Wanam/Xposed. This needs root.

In regards to default inbox > all mail, I haven't tried to do that but let me see if I can figure it out. Will let you know.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
It doesn't help that you're coming from a platform that doesn't want to make it easy for you to move...

I feel the same way about the streaming music services, and I tried to explain this to my roommate who works at google, and has drunk the koolaid. The impression I got from him was that we shouldn't be in places that don't have internet - and I'm all for avoiding those, but those times when I can't, I really want to be able to listen to music! At least the note 3 has a microSD card slot, so you can store lots of music on a 64GB micro SD card.

I just put all my music onto a MicroSD card and pointed Music Folder Player at it. I don't know if this will work on an iTunes library though.

I don't think anyone said this already... You can't flash roms on an AT&T note3, the bootloader is locked. All we can do is root the stock rom (until someone comes up with a bootloader exploit). But you can do a lot with "just" root.

As for samsung apps being useful, probably all you want is the S-Pen related ones.

If you use the Email app (not just GMail), do not disable MyMagazine, however annoying it is; it breaks the basic email app if you do.

The apps with the circle and arrow are shortcuts to download the apps. I just checked on a few of mine, though, and they look to be free. It looks like Samsung had the courtesy not to install all of the bloatware they wanted to? Or maybe they have to pay royalties based on how many people actually install it...? (at least some of them are not samsung products)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marth:
Thats very true, but theres also no music manager for android either. Okay well, i'll give you winamp, but honestly, i hate the look of winamp, and most of the themes/skins for it are also terrible. I tried googling for themes for the android app, and I couldnt even find any (then again, i didnt look too hard. just a simple google search).

say what you want, iTunes is a pretty good music manager for those who like to manage their music, but arnt anal about tagging. Ive found that using iSyncr and PlayerPro together have been a great substitution for the same experience as on an iPhone. Except that you CANT SET PlayerPro as your default music app. Apparently people have had issues with the same thing, and theres just no solution on how to set PlayerPro as your default app. I might try finding another music app soon if I cant figure it out, since I play my music through bluetooth in my car, and if I cant choose the songs through my cars system, theres no point.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LittleRedDot:
What do you mean change songs through your car's system? Is it really too much trouble to pick up your phone and press the skip button on whatever music player is running.

And what do you mean by "default music app"? If you want to run something different than what you have, just put that icon on your home screen and open it instead.

I don't know why former iOS sheep have to make things so complicated, like" how do I get this to look/act/do the same as my iPhone "? Something sent you this side of the Isle, just embrace android for a few day whilst you learn the basics of the platform and your device.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RavenZwei:
Were you able to select the music before on your iPhone through Bluetooth? Because I would love to find what ever head unit/car you have, because my wife would love that. Only place I've ever seen seen that is if you plug in the iPhone, never though Bluetooth.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Limeybastard:
Dude, he's not a sheep. He is trying his best to join the darkside. Least he tried and is attempting to learn - as I am trying to do. Please be patient.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudraker:
Not sure if this is any help, but you can store your Google Play music locally as to not be stuck streaming it all the time.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Limeybastard:
I learned this too just now, I was not aware you could stream it. I never did with the iPhone. Well, with Spotify at home I did.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marth:
chill out dog, stop being an apple hater, and an android fanboy. im not taking sides or trying to mimic anything from the iphone, im just trying to figure this out so it stops crashing on me. your post just makes you look like a (giant) ****. Also, google the definition of the world default. Placing an app on your homescreen doesnt make it your default app.

What I meant is that when I use PlayerPro+iSyncr to sync my itunes library to my phone (which works great, only downfall is the price), I can't set playerpro as my default music app. Now what this does is when I use bluetooth to play my music through my car, it plays the music through the default music app and not PlayerPro, but I want the music to play through PlayerPro so it keeps track of my song's playcounts and ratings and everything. If I play music through PlayerPro (through my phone), it will work, but the on screen display will show the last played song on the default music app. When I play music through my car (pretend theres no song currently playing, and i hit play), it will play music through the default music app and not PlayerPro.

TL;DR I want all my music to run from PlayerPro and not the default music app, but I can't find a setting option for that.

[MENTION=2764396]RavenZwei[/MENTION]

Yea, on my iPhone, I would never even have to choose a song on my phone. I would start my car, and the bluetooth would automatically connect and start playing my music. I drive a 2014 Mazda 6, but im sure the bluetooth functionality is common in most cars these days.

With my new android, I have to select a song to play once I start my car (through PlayerPro), otherwise it will play through the default music app, and I want to play through PlayerPro so I can keep syncing my music with iTunes.

I know google play is an option, but ive never been a fan of streaming. I rather have my music always available to me and not be dependent on my wifi or 4g connection. Not every place in america has fast internet. While my house does, the university I study at splits up their 100 MBps line so that its shared between ALL their wifi users, so wifi speeds end up being 200 kbps or lower (its a VERY big school).

Also, I like having sorting my music through ratings/play counts. I have several playlists in iTunes that auto filter songs using these two stats, and I would like to keep using them. Google play doesnt track any of this, besides the thumbs up/down (but I think they do have an (beta) option to change the thumbs up/down to a 5 star rating)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudraker:
I'll be honest here I never use my phone for music out side of Google Play. That being said in most cases with any other app if you want to change the default app you have to clear the current default and then the phone will prompt you next time you want to use a file of a certain type. In this case it's music. So if you go to apps under settings and find the default player, try clearing the settings there by hitting clear defaults. Then, select a music file and see if it prompts you to set a new default.

I'm not sure if that will work or even address the issue you're having but it's worth a shot.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Limeybastard:
Hey Marth, can you get the messages to download and read on your car? I used to be able to with my Galaxy S4 with my 2013 Mazdaspeed 3 with tech pack. Also, every time I get into my car the Note 3 will prompt me with a message to connect and the music doesnt shuffle.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marth:
i know my car has the feature (it asks me if I wanna download messages and contacts to my car when i set up bluetooth), but ive never used it. I tried using it once on my iPhone, but it never read the message to me, just downloaded it to my car, so I didnt bother after that. I'll try to see what happens with the note 3 later today.

On my iPhone, my music wouldn't shuffle, but I thinkt the last time I was playing music on my note3, i had shuffle on and it worked perfectly. But then again, this was through the default music app (i think), so I'll have to check if PlayerPro works properly.

Also, I dont have a music app set as default already. I like how you can change the default app in android, but theres no real easy way to change it. Sure, you can select a song, and hope that the app youre tyring to make the new default app shows up in the app list, but if it doesnt, you have no other way of changing the default app. There should be an option in settings to change the default app, not just clear it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawman:
You can pin albums in Google Play Music(go to album and click the thumb tack icon) , or just drag and drop them from Windows/Mac file explorer. My advice, get all the music you have on iTunes, and never use it again.

LED notifications you can set different colors with Lightflow

Those apps are Samsung apps, which will update when you open them.

I don't use any Samsung apps, except Sketchbook for Galaxy, but to rid yourself of them you can either find them in Settings>Application Manager>App you don't want>Click it > turn off/disable or Root, Install Titanium Backup and Freeze them.

I get lockscreen notifications, like SMS/E-mail, I think only stock apps show up on the lockscreen.

Not without root, and I don't think that's even possible without a custom ROM, I haven't seen it in the Wanam Xposed module

I use Nova launcher, and there's hundreds of icon packs for it

IDK, I just click always show images from this sender.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Limeybastard:
Like yourself I am a relative newb to this. So, I have not even gone to the extent of changing default app for the player. I know the iPhone cannot upload text messages and read them on my car, however the Galaxy S4 could but the Note 3 cannot do this on the same vehicle- get message download failed or to that effect. Hence the question to see if you perhaps could. Never mind.

I can get my default music player to shuffle, but once I restart the car it goes back to not shuffeling. I am using the player that has the blue music icon, if that makes sense.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbryson16:
I have ventured into the world's of WebOS, iOS, and Android in my travels through the years. For the past year I was wielding an iPhone 4s, until the glorious morning of October 4th when the AT&T store opened and I purchased the greatest smartphone ever produced by the likes of Mankind. One thing I can tell you for certain is at this moment in the history of smartphones no device or OS is perfect. However I believe Android to be the superior of its peers. With all that being said I will atempt to advise. For starters I HIGHLY recommend you root you N3! One suggestion I have that may or may not work for you regarding your default player issue. Try freezing the default player app. Or maybe even all music players except the one you prefer. Or possibly if it's an option for you consider an ipod touch. And since you only need it for music, it could be an older generation(less expensive). Another suggestion. YouTube note 3 tips and tricks. Also how to get the most of your android. As far as custom roms for stock android, forget about it! You accomplish that and you loose all Spen functionality. However as others have stated xposed, custom launchers, custom lockscreen apps, and titanium backup will get you damn close to being able to customize and optimize your device any way your heart desires. Most of all relax and enjoy the experience... you are the owner of the most powerful personlize-able pocket sized device ever released to the masses. This forum among many are full of knowledge and wisdom just waiting for you to discover. Though some of your answers will take a lot of patience and tedious searching to answer, once discovered will be that much sweeter and cherished. Good hunting and god speed my friend.

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Also on a side note. Look at this as an opportunity. You can start a thread for those converting from iOS to give them a helping hand. Hell do a good enough job and it'll probably get stickied! You could be like an Android messiah. Apple makes a nice product. Nobody can deny them that! But what can be denied is our money! It's because they want to be proprietary and force everybody to stay within the realm of apple that you and everybody who tries to transition has to deal with these hardships. They want it like that. They even paid a ridiculous fine to the FCC because they didn't want to adopt a universal charger like everybody else did. Apple is tech tyrants! Not trying to get an apple/android fanboy fight going. Because i have my qualms with Google too. Just stating the facts.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marth:
I actually took the time and tested it out, and it actually works. I can download messages, and my car will read them (although sometimes I dont understand what my car is reading), and it wont transcribe it for you if your car is moving(aka youre driving), which sucks. Im pretty sure I could have done this with the iPhone as well, I just never bothered.

I did set PlayerPro as my default music app now, it will play my music on shuffle (which never worked on the iPhone so thats great i guess), but it wont display the music info (again, im pretty sure its trying to receive this data from the stock music app). This is annoying for me because I cant just skip through songs and know what songs about to play, i have to wait 5~ seconds in to usually figure it out, unless im playing a playlist or something. The skip/pause controls work through my car so its not that big of an issue. I would just prefer if I could see my music data on my dashboard.

also to anyone bashing at apple, im not defending them, but you have to realize that their phones are targeted at different audiences. the iPhone is undeniably the most reliable and consistent phone ever made (as of this moment). If you want a fast phone that will get the job done, the iPhone is perfect. It takes pictures instantly, it will transition between apps smoothly (no matter how many apps youre running or how low on ram you are), and the stock apps that come with the phone isnt pure **** (unlike android, where the phone is useless unless you completely get rid of stock apps and download your own, root it, and completely mod it so its 100% different than stock)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbryson16:
Glad to see your making head way! And I agree. The simplicity and consistency of iPhone is definitely it's biggest draw. But it looks as if Samsung is starting to follow suit. Next year the Ubuntu touch edge is supposed to be released. It could be a game changer! Anyway welcome to the world of android! Apologies for getting so far off subject on your post
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbryson16:
Oh I didn't mean Samsung is following suit on the simplicity lol. But rather the consistency.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] rnaodm:
Alot of odd tutorials that require the use of adb and various factory "razor" zips but I cant get anything to work, is there anything as simple as put stock zip on device, reboot into recovery, and wipe/install factory zip?

Thanks
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] thor6577:
I am assuming that you need the WiFi version and that you want the latest stock so here is the link to a thread for a flashable stock.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2416438
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] rnaodm:
Thanks Ill check it out, I'm looking to return it and both versions (Odexed/Deodexed? First time Ive heard those terms) are rooted.

Still reading through that thread but looks like the first 7 pages are all people telling him his roms dont work.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] thor6577:
Odexed - In Android file system, applications come in packages with the extension .apk. These application packages, or APKs contain certain .odex files whose supposed function is to save space. These ‘odex’ files are actually collections of parts of an application that are optimized before booting. Doing so speeds up the boot process, as it preloads part of an application. On the other hand, it also makes hacking those applications difficult because a part of the coding has already been extracted to another location before execution.

DeOdexed - Deodexing is basically repackaging of these APKs in a certain way, such that they are reassembled into classes.dex files. By doing that, all pieces of an application package are put together back in one place, thus eliminating the worry of a modified APK conflicting with some separate odexed parts.

In summary, Deodexed ROMs (or APKs) have all their application packages put back together in one place, allowing for easy modification such as theming. Since no pieces of code are coming from any external location, custom ROMs or APKs are always deodexed to ensure integrity."

That is an excerpt from Rooting Guide for Dummies.

Deodexed ROMs are more customizable. Odexed are smaller but no major theming such as changing your statusbar. My advice: if you want to stay complete stock forever, flash the odexed version.
[Microsoft Surface] god2pac:
Why gmail, drive, calendar, etc. doesn't work good on ie app and desktop?

Eg. With ie app i can't download attachments!

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[Microsoft Surface] Anonymously_Unknown:
You answered your own question.

Microsoft will write their own APIs for the Metro/Modern interface to gain a favorable advantage to their own products. They wouldn't want you to be saving your documents in Google Drive or updating your Gmail calendar/contacts.

For that functionality, you would have to use the desktop edition of Google Chrome (but this is besides the point of using Windows 8 as opposed to Windows 7).

Microsoft like Apple will do things to make it difficult for Google to become "compliant" in being able to write apps (as opposed to desktop applications) for the Metro interface.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
Uh, Gmail and Google Docs work fine for me in (desktop) IE10 (RT 8.0) and IE11. Not sure about the "modern" mode of IE; seriously, you would have to pay me handsomely to make me use that garbage when there's a full-featured browser built into the OS.
[Microsoft Surface] domboy:
Same here, Google apps works just fine in IE10 on my Surface RT (8.0). I'm not sure I've tried it in the modern mode either, but the desktop browser works great. There is also a Google search store app that you also use to access them, but I've found that to be slower than the browser and stopped using it.

There are no desktop sync programs for RT of course (or whatever is available for typical desktop windows).
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] steverae:
Does anyone know of a program that will lock the buttons of a univeral (especially the phone buttons on the side) whilst the phone is in your (BIG) pocket.

This was a feature of the WM5 rom on the himalaya but appears to be missing on the universal.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] woschirmer:
under settings -> buttons -> lock you can activate the option: Lock all buttons except Power button, but this doesn't deactivate the phone buttons.

Wolfgang
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] h_smith:
I had already had my phone's bootloader unlocked and rooted and had a GPe ROM installed and worked perfectly. THEN I saw that you could literally make it a Google Play edition phone complete with OTA and worked on trying to achieve that. Getting my phone S-Off wasn't working because I believe of my HBOOT version (1.55) so I was told to download this stock ROM that would downgrade me to reach a version that I could then run revone to achieve S-OFF.

POST: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45487258&postcount=55

I ran a backup through TWRP first and then flahsed this ROM, which has kept my HTC One at the HTC One splash screen. I connected it to my computer/ADB and got it into the bootloader to go into custome recovery BUT the recovery takes me to a black screen with a phone and red triangle, so it's like my recovery isn't there anymore. Fine.

I download the latest TWRP for my phone(triple checked) and ran the fastboot flash recovery command through ADB but it says

"(bootloader) signature checking...FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)"

is there some sort of way to disable the signature check using ADB or am I actually going about this the wrong way?

I'll admit, I don't do this stuff oftem, so ask as many questions as needed as I probably left out details you may need
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] noobsquared:
I may be wrong but you may have to re-lock the bootloader and run the ruu back to stock.

nandroid backup restore won't change the hboot so I don't think you'll have any luck there.

I'm running ARHD 40 just till we can find a way to run s-off on our AT&T devices.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] h_smith:
Not to sound n00b-ish, but what would be the best way of doing this?

EDIT: Actually it is relocked already! Duh! On the bootloader screen it says "TAMPERED" and then "RELOCKED" below that
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] noobsquared:
That's alright, we were all noobs at some point in time.

Sounds like you re-locked the bootloader without stock recovery.

Here is the link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2158151

Download the cingular:

RUU_M7_UL_JB43_SENSE50_MR_Cingular_US_3.17.502.3_Radio_4A.19.3263.13_10.38j.1157.04_release_334235_signed_2.exe 1134.6MB 2013-10-07 16:47:53

Run the RUU from a windows based computer that has HTC drivers and it should restore it back to stock.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] h_smith:
I actually had that downloaded but I was just concerned if that was the right move since it wipes the phone.