[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Narada2XK:
Hi Peeps,

I would just like to get some input from the community on a handset that I have and my situation.

So here goes...

I gave a friend of mine some money to order a Note 3 (SM-N9005), from Amazon and we went with the shopebest seller.

When I received the unit, I inserted my sim card, microSD, battery and booted the device for the first time.

When I got to the region/language part of the wizard, the device froze and rebooted (hard or soft, I don't remember) but then I was successful in choosing a language, etc, until it got to the part with agreeing with Samsung terms and if I wish for anonymous data to be sent, where it rebooted again.

You can see more info about my device here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47178130&postcount=52

And here:

http://www.cultofandroid.com/43344/random-restarts-boot-loops-on-your-galaxy-note-3-youre-not-alone/

http://www.galaxynote.fr/reboot-aleatoire-t13618.html

http://galaxys-team.fr/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=39124

http://www.phonandroid.com/samsung-g...empestifs.html

http://www.phonandroid.com/forum/reb...re-t76676.html

http://www.planetegalaxy.com/forum/r...re-t25948.html

http://www.etradesupply.com/blog/sol...te-3-problems/

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2013/1...update-needed/

http://www.etradesupply.com/blog/solve-samsung-galaxy-note-3-problems/

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/indian-android/BrrbK8G_gT4/WD0_-6PldQwJ

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/10/some-galaxy-note-3-users-encountering-boot-loops/

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/10/17/some-galaxy-note-3-units-experiencing-boot-loops/

Other users with similar issues:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49603990

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2615239

http://xdaforums.com/show...=reboot&page=2

http://xdaforums.com/show...467005&page=29

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=2489785

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2467005

http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/174...oot-aleatoire/

http://www.forum-generationmobiles.n...boot-aleatoire

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2525431

The persistent notification bug has been resolved and I no longer receive that internal storage is low message.

I factory reset the device after every OTA with hopes of the random freeze to soft reboots from happening, I even feared that it was something on the XME ROM that was bugging it so I tried MM1 (factory reset), XSP (factory reset) and BTU (didn't factory reset) with the same issues.

There are also times the entire screen will glitch up, like a TV on the wrong frequency. It will also give me a black screen when taking a screenshot or using the lasso to select something from the screen to share, it will just be black and when that happens, I reboot, the problem is gone.

The time to send it back to the Amazon seller has gone. I just wanted to hold onto it in hopes that I can flash something like CyanogenMod that will wipe the phone and put on something that isn't Samsung related to see if I will have the same issues but CM isn't releasing anytime soon I suppose but CM was my LAST resort as I doubt that we'd be able to install it without tripping knox just yet.

The handset is a Malaysian one. Even though I missed my window of sending it back to the seller, (at least I think so because I did have my friend report it before the time), will Samsung be of any help?

I have tried using the phone with no sim and no sdcard but it will still freeze and reboot at some point.

I have tried using another sim.

I have tried MM1, XSP and BTU ROMs with no success.

I have factory reset with no sim nor sdcard and it happened, right at the region/language part just like first boot.

The next thing that I want to try is a new battery, if that fails, CyanogenMod might save the day.

PS. I live in the Caribbean (Barbados).

Any suggestion is welcome.

Knox is still 0x0 0x1.

My fix for the random reboots and freezing: Rooting and having SetCPU to "performance" and "noop".

On Jellybean, the problem never came back for a week or two but then I tried KitKat (dirty), where, the problem has returned but still not as much as I was having while unrooted.