[Galaxy Note5 General] handmjj:
This is a super great point asrebel brings up. i have been out of the rooting xda community for awhile. some here are into modding deving etc but some like myself see it as a way to take back control of the once open sourced android they have been slowly locking down little by little. they keep changing the things that made android loveable in the first place. if something aint broke why fix it? see im coming from an s3. i basically was forc9ed to upgrade. my wife really wanted new phones and if the lgg4 pro was out i would have got that instead of this note 5. coming from the rooted s3 has made me understand why i love root so much and took it for granted. see i never themed or did anything. i just set it up and fixed the annoying bloatware etc and basically ran stock with rooted apps and mods and than i was done with it. this whole convuluted message being touted on these paid blogs that once were created for open source are now so far out and not in touch with reality. i think how can we even compare android with iphone? well now we can because this note 5 is pretty darn close albeit not aluminum back.lol.

for starters i didnt realize how stock lollipop sucks so bad. its like they really locked down the settings. i find it hard to customize anything. do you know this phone crashes on me once a day at least from memory overload...mind 4gbs of ram? im thankful for the op for this blog. for those griping that were talking about this stuff you should read the op's original topic thread. its great to bounce ideas of each other like minded inviduals. capitalism works best when people are informed to purchase. purchasing parity is hard to achieve when we all settle like scattered sheep. a strategy i believe most ceo's use is market confusuion. they introduce the note 5 to see how big of sample size they lose to people like us here. how many will buy note 4. from his standpoint he wants to sell out of note 4s. the market is saturated and sluggish. why release the best than evwryone will buy it and older models will be loss profits. now to a point i see this but other things unfortunately i dont see coming back. sd cards ir blaster removable baterry etc. incipio needs to make a battery pack case with a sd card and ir blaster in it. they made the offgrid for s6 but i emailed them and said they had no plans for note 5. this thing is awkward to hold. i bought a case because for one its got the glass back that defeats the premium build(imo should be metal) but also to give support for holding it. its so skinny i could live with a fat battery case. now it would be a lot nicer if the phone was just wider with bigger battery and had aluminum back so there would be no need for case. but this is life at the moment. also i must add the sensitivty around the edges is whacked because its so thin my fingers(i have small hands too!) are getting recognized by the sides to easy. if i had root i bet i could control the sensitivity...aghhh... i wish they would release a developer edition but i dont see it. verizon is dead set on stopping root and so is samsung. its nuts. it sucks. and i cant wait for another manufacurer to step up. one thing lg needs to do is to make the screen brighter. the lgg4 is so dim in daylight compared to note 5. thats a deal breaker. its one of the main reasons i got the note 5. still under 14 days though. want to return it but idk what else to get. s3 is just to old to go back too.