[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Journyman16:
I started my Android experience with a Moto Defy - not impressive but tough little phone. Given I cam from a Nokia E52 it was reasonable but didn't really change my phone use.

And then I bought an S3, back around July 2012. What a blast! It was like being back in the Days of DOS when you could get in behind the scenes to make your hardware dance. I tried maybe 30 different ROMs/versions, including some CM's but settled on Purelook and for the last 4 - 5 months, version 8 of that was my ideal. The S3 (apple Killer - another point in its favour - me am not an Apple fan :D) was a hard act to follow; I couldn't see enough advantage with the S4 to outlay the extra.

My wife had had a Note 7000 and loved it but we got her an Xperia Z tablet for her school stuff and it has now replaced both her Note and the lovely 13" ASUS notebook she had. She was content for a while with a Moto Defy+ but missed the camera advantages (and speed) of the Note. (I'd rooted it, debloated and found a nice 4.2 ROM for it) She felt guilty about wanting a new phone so I got to look for what I wanted.

TBH, the whole Knox thing had me looking elsewhere - thought about a Note 2, looked at the Nexus types (if they'd had a Nexus 7 with phone capabilities I wouldn't have come here :D Why the hell do they think people with tablets don't want phones? A 7" or 8" phablet would make a killing on the market)

Eventually the specs of the Note 3 got me to buy one. We bought the missus a S4 Zoom (for the camera) and I got my 32GB black Note 3.

Hated it with a passion for about 30 minutes. It was HK version and I had some woman prattling at me in Chinese, the screen was unresponsive, I couldn't read it, nothing was working right. Eventually, I restarted (probably the 4th time) and found I could long press to get results on the screen and I made it English... but I still couldn't shut her up!

With the screen issues, having to double tap everything and getting random results, having jerky and unpredictable swipes and screen changes, I was convinced I'd bought a dud.

Then, using the Zoom, we found how to shut that bloody voice up. (Settings, Controls, Accessibility, Talkback) and the screen responded beautifully, the taps worked as they should, scrolling was smooth and fast, AND SHE SHUT THE **** UP!!! :d

Since then I have rooted the phone (not without some grief) so I can run Titanium and Greenify, and I'm looking around for a custom ROM that will not break Knox - ROM devs should put that up in the 1st post - most of them you have to try to work it out from later posts where people mention CMW/TWRP or doing a Nandroid.

Which is another sore point with Samsung. How dare they lock us out of being able to do a full back up? Anything happens to the phone and we're stuck with spending days trying to get everything back in place. I've yet to find a backup app that remembers where each app was on which screen and restores widgets as well. What could possibly be wrong with putting a full backup option into the stock recovery? Bastards!

Good thing the phone is so good or we'd all be buying Nexus.

PS: Up the top of the page is an advert from an iphone site... Losers or what? You'd think they would find a site that wasn't so earnestly interested in Android and waste their cash there. Still, nice to have their support for XDA. :D