by tomorrow, my VZW Note 2 will have been on for exactly 164 days without a restart... last time I restarted it was January 14.
(edit... my mistake... I originally thought it was 200 days... but not close yet)
perhaps this is nothing... but pretty impressive compared to my previous...
Google Photosphere(360-degree panorama camera) now works perfectly on Verizon Galaxy Note 2
Get Photosphere on non-Nexus devices with the 'Google edition' camera app | Android Central
I have been playing with it and the results have been spectacular! :)
Did you call Verizon and complain about the lack of earphones? That's what I did when I bought my Note 2. The customer service rep offered to send me a pair for free as a "goodwill gesture" and I accepted. It was the same ones that came with my previous phone, the Samsung Galaxy S3.
I've done this at Best Buy plenty of times because they don't charge it. (example: buying Note 2 for $9, deactivate it and put a dumbphone on the line)
However, are you sure about Costco?
I reported that flaw to Samsung a months ago and got no reply.
Someone else posted the exact problem here and got banned.... :( It's quite easy to do, but I can't post it... obviously.
I don't know if Verizon was being generous or stupid. When I called customer service and asked about this issue, the rep told me that she was shipping me a pair of headphones. 3 days later, I received them. Turned out to be the exact white headphones that that came with my previous Verizon...
why do you want to disable it? The only problem with home button wake is that it changes
the screen to the home screen, regardless of whatever app/screen you were on. This can
be easily solved. Just go into S-Voice settings and let the home button activate S-Voice.
one thing is certain... Android 5.0 will be released by summer, at the latest.... making it to VZW Note 2 will probably take another 10 months after that.(minimum)