[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samuel Sung:
Don't worry wo much about rooting.

If you can read something and follow guidelines safely. If you read every tutorial at LEAST 2 times and try to be 100% sure than it's pretty much safe. I never bricked any XBOX PS Mobilephone Smarthpone etc. It can take a few days before i will do the first flash on a device where i never did id before...so one weekend or a couple of hours reading and your ready to go...

After this process it's a matter of maximum 15 minutes...if you do not search too long for an new rom. ;)

So process is...

open xda get a nice rom... time depends on your taste

download time depends on your connection

copy it onto your note 3 i guess it takes just a minute

have a NANDROID BACKUP (ok this will take a little bit of time processing if you don't already have one)

reboot into CWM

wipe bla bla etc

5-10 minutes your phone is usable again...

I think it's kinda hard to brick your device if you are very very careful...i guess no one hates you for asking a "dumb" question because of you want to be sure if you understood it right. ;)

i will tell you why the Note 3 for me is the most awesome piece of plastic leatherimitate regionlock knoxcraptrigger bull**** in our entire galaxy...Maybe this will help you with your decision...

Mention you hand out your Note 3 to someone to show em the gallery. as we know sometimes it's weird to use your smartphone from angles you are not used to. The screen doesn't react properly.

With note 3 you just wave your hand over the top sensor and you can scroll through the pictures...

i used it often...it's annoying to me to grab someone in the screen to show something...

When i am in the bathroom or kitchen i hear music. I just wave my wet and/or dirty hands over the note 3 and it plays the next song etc. You van even control the volume play pause stop etc with your voice. WAY better than with Siri...

you met a person and have to type in his/hers adress number etc.

-you just grab your s-pen. Aktion memo (ar any [non root ;)] programm you prefer to take notes with) will pop up and you can write it down. i found me to use this daily...

Mention you have a funny day. You sit there at a friends house watching tv with friends. and the TV goes wild...me loled... xD

Remote IR sensor...

you are in the kitchen. the phone is laying in another room. Door is ofcourse open. Your hands are dirty. Phone is in Standby...

-You will say a little louder "Hi Galaxy" even "Yo Galaxy" or "whattup Galaxy" (there surely works more. officially i have to say "Hallo Galaxy" cause i'm german)

S-Voice will start. Now you can say. Yo galaxy set timer to 10 minutes. It will answer and ask i she should do it. i say Yo. and done...

i use this on the daily bases. this really makes s-voice finally usefull...

and the nice thing is if you say "google blabla etc" s-voice will open google now...

if you are using english language settings you can say "ok google" and use google Now..

How awesome is that?

and with root i'M sure you can shutdown s-voice and only use google Now...

and forge that people telling about lags...they are hell of nerds (no offense) cause you won'T recognize it it's blazing fast. it happened that apps crashed. but no problem cause everything happens so fast. Apps start so fast. really nothing to worry about.

The beatuy Nova Launcher the lockscreen...

I shake my phone and the flashlight is turned on. (it's an app "shake control" iphone should do it too if not...build your opinion)

Adjust Sound option

A friend of mine has an iphone 5 it's sad how badly the screen looks compared to the Note 3. I mean not the size. I like the colours of samsungs amoled more. It's a thing of taste imo...

I compared the sounds with the same song. I came to the point that both were awesome and it's a thing of taste. i tended to the Note 3 but i couldn't be objective cause it was after unpacking the note. Could be subjective...

But with the adjust sound setting you can SIGNIFICANTLY improve the sound quality with your headphones. It really stunned me. The configurationwizard will play sounds to the left and right ear and you have to say if you hear it or not. It really is way better. it's not like only an audiophle person would hear it. It is a BIG difference..which only works which stock player at the time...i'M sure this guys on here will fix this soon...:) and overall the stock player is not bad...it's quite good thoug..

i play poker or i have something on the PC which i don't want to do in front of the pc anymore but with the PC. i use Splashtop and move on...

Now the s-pen comes in place. you the hovering action which you mentioned as bad is now awesome. cause it's working like the mouse. and clicking is tapping...if you use it you will understand why it is so awesome for some tasks..And the screen is big enough to see and do everything without the pen too.

I use AirView as a third Monitor for my PC. so the Note 3 is my third PC monitor...

if you look a video. and you eyes are of the screen it instantly pauses the movie. If you look back it goes on...awesome and usefull to me...

when you hover the s-pen anywhere where you can scroll the blue dot it will turn to an arrow and it will smoothly scroll in that direction...usefull to me in some situations...

Samsung Link. link up with samsung link. Install the server on your pc and share data...if i got it right (didn't tried yet) then it's even possible to let your pc turned on. and stream data with a good connection to your phone from anywhere in the world...

Scenarios are possible that your pc is turned of. you wake it up via 3G and get it to do everything that this works...

The Camera...in comaprison videos the camera from the note 3 bashed the iphone camera in my opinion. Iphone soundquality really is BULL****...seriously...i am objective in this point...it's sounds so enormously bad compared to the note 3 it's a shame for apple...

The Note 3 Snapdragon versions record videos in 4k...it looks so awesome...but 40seconds 220MB...insane as the quality...

You say click...he shoots a photo...you say record video he does his job...The camera is just awesome...

for me i liked the colourful samsung photos more than the 5S from apple...

You have NFC...you will share a big file like 1GB with a friend which has also an NFC (wi-fi direct) device. go to the file. tap the backs of the phones against eachother in about a minute or so the file is at your friends device...handy...

NFC has much potential. iphone has no NFC....

dude there is so much you can do. Everything what the ihpone can wil do the note 3 too if not way better...

all this is withoout rooting...

Multitasking is a big argument for me...

i use it on the daily bases...

let me know what you think.. i could go on for days...^^

cheers

oh i forgot those 50GB Dropbox space for free for 2 years...but i guess only for european models...