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Totally underwhelmed. I'll happily stick with my S4 until I see how the S6 looks. And FUCK Samsung for getting hooked on this physical home button. I love my S4, but the S2 (Epic 4G Touch) is the best looking Galaxy they've made. Single piece of glass with capacitive buttons is sex, or just use the soft buttons within the LCD that Google came up with forever ago.

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too bad the s2 was a giant piece of shit and a full 2/3 of the phone repairs I get every month are those. The s2 has single handedly kept Sprints service centers open. We love that phone.
 
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Tarrant_sl said:
too bad the s2 was a giant piece of shit and a full 2/3 of the phone repairs I get every month are those. The s2 has single handedly kept Sprints service centers open. We love that phone.
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I love the look and size of my s2 skyrocket, but I really wish I hadn't bought it. I've had to replace 2 parts in it. They also updated it to 4.1.2 and the phone can't handle it, it's frustratingly slow. The input lag on typing alone is infuriating.
 
Intrinsic

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What all is on the horizon? Going to replace my S3 in the next couple of months.

S5, iPhone 6, HTC One (?), does LG have anything coming out?

Will stay on Verizon and am considering making the iPhone switch, but we'll see.
 
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Not sure if LG will have anything new real soon. The LG G2 just launched right after the Samsung Note 3 did last October. Neither is even 6 months old yet. AT this point I'd be leaning toward the Samsung S5, but hopefully we see what HTC has in store soon. HTC should have a new phone ready about the same time as the S5 I would imagine, since the S4 and HTC One both launched at almost exactly the same time last year.

At this point I have to assume that for 99% of people, it doesn't even matter what the iPhone 6 is going to feature, you're either gung-ho all-in for Apple regardless or you are the same for Android, and couldn't hardly be paid to switch to Apple. I just don't know hardly anyone that switches back and forth between the 2 phone ecosystems, at least not more than once. At this point, no one is being sold on an iPhone if they haven't liked previous ones.
 
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Google - gives you the fucking os
Samsung/LG/Motorola/HTC - builds you the fucking phone
Tmobile/Sprint/Verizon/ATT - provides you the fucking service

What is so fucking hard to understand about this concept?
 
Melvin

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Rooting. Rooting is fucking hard to understand (for someone who's only been looking at it for ~2 days so far).

I finally popped my smartphone cherry with a Note 3 on Friday, and of course the one thing I disliked about the OS right off the bat is all the bullshit pre-installed apps that I want to make go away. I'm pretty comfortable wiping a real computer's hd and re-installing whichever OS needs to be re-installed, but this whole Android thing is new and different and apparently even more different than I had expected. What I want (or wanted, at least) to do is just put a bone stock version of Android on my phone, and obviously acquiring root privileges would need to happen at some point in that process. But what I'm finding on the web is a bunch of haxxor-esque info that looks like I'll end up with an "enhanced" version of Android that's been modified in ways that I could easily not want just as much as I don't want the current bloatware.

tl;dr: Does anyone know of any non-1337-haxxor resources for rooting a Note 3?
 
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Which carrier? The XDA forums usually have pretty consolidate threads with videos, pictures, and links to files. You're probably most screwed if on Verizon as I think they killed most easy one click root / bootstraps.
 
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joeboo_sl said:
Not sure if LG will have anything new real soon. The LG G2 just launched right after the Samsung Note 3 did last October.Neither is even 6 months old yet. AT this point I'd be leaning toward the Samsung S5, but hopefully we see what HTC has in store soon. HTC should have a new phone ready about the same time as the S5 I would imagine, since the S4 and HTC One both launched at almost exactly the same time last year.

At this point I have to assume that for 99% of people, it doesn't even matter what the iPhone 6 is going to feature, you're either gung-ho all-in for Apple regardless or you are the same for Android, and couldn't hardly be paid to switch to Apple. I just don't know hardly anyone that switches back and forth between the 2 phone ecosystems, at least not more than once. At this point, no one is being sold on an iPhone if they haven't liked previous ones.
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They just released the GFlex a few weeks'ish ago and they have a new version of their Optimus F3 coming out in the near future.
 
Melvin

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Which carrier? The XDA forums usually have pretty consolidate threads with videos, pictures, and links to files. You're probably most screwed if on Verizon as I think they killed most easy one click root / bootstraps.
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Yeah, I'm on Verizon. So I'm not going to jump in headfirst and root it just yet, but the XDA forums does look like the place to start learning. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
 
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Note 3 on verizon and att has a locked bootloader, any rom you load is just going to be a modified rooted version of the original ship thats debloated. No AOSP or non touchwiz aka cyanogen because it requires a custom kernel.
 
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Just make the switch to iPhone and jailbreak it and never look back. Haha.
 
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Not much has made me want to root my Note 3 aside from maybe working on battery life improvements a little. The Note 2 I had to root as soon as convenienct because of how big some of the default items in the pulldown menu were and it bugged me.

I do have this thing with Facebook and some other apps where their network connectivity seems to hang and I have to restart the app for it to start working properly again. For example I'll click on a notification and the FB post will just say 'updating' and not load any comments.

I was ready to go iPhone once, but then they announced the disappointing 5 and I got a Galaxy Nexus instead.

When they go to a larger phone I'll consider them... I think my next one may be a 5"+ Windows Phone though. I've been on Team Droid since the first Moto Droid.
 
Melvin

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It sounds like Adblock Plus works better and easier on a rooted Android. It also sounds like it might block ads inside other apps too, but I'm not getting my hopes up too high about that yet.
 
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Melvin_sl said:
It sounds like Adblock Plus works better and easier on a rooted Android. It also sounds like it might block ads inside other apps too, but I'm not getting my hopes up too high about that yet.
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It did block ads in most other apps last time I used it.
 
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