Who has gotten the 4.4 download Sprint has released for the Note 2? Tell us your experience and what's new that you've noticed.
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tube517
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Yes, I'd like to compare the N7105 version with what Sprint got. I'm on AT&T and the devs were able to port the official OTA for the International N7105 version and bring it to our AT&T (i317) version.
1. White status bar icons
2. New animation when you power down
3. Multiple apps can now be open in both screens with multi window
4. Better looking stock calculator
5. Location settings
6. Cleaner font and clear button for notifications in the notification shade
7. Default applications
8. Camera shortcut on lock screen
9. Device unlocks faster
10. Full screen album art for music on lock screen
11. Different color of blue for tabs in the settings
12. More opaque digital clock on home screen
13. You can now disable apps from the app drawer
14. When putting a shortcut on the home screen from app drawer you have new option of disabling the app and new color when selecting to create a folder or page
15. You also get emoji support on both the Samsung and Google keyboard not sure about any other ones tho
16. Screen doesn't unlock when you plug in headphones, it just turns it on as if you pressed the home or power button
17. Wireless printing
If anyone else that has gotten the update and notices anything else that I missed let me know and I'll edit this post. I've included some screen shots of a few of the changes I mentioned above. If there's something anyone would like to see that you were hoping might of changed let me know and I'll check for you and see if it has. And if you want to see any screen shots of anything else I mentioned let me know also. I hope this helps
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2. New animation when you power down
3. Multiple apps can now be open in both screens with multi window
4. Better looking stock calculator
5. Location settings
6. Cleaner font and clear button for notifications in the notification shade
7. Default applications
8. Camera shortcut on lock screen
9. Device unlocks faster
10. Full screen album art for music on lock screen
11. Different color of blue for tabs in the settings
12. More opaque digital clock on home screen
13. You can now disable apps from the app drawer
14. When putting a shortcut on the home screen from app drawer you have new option of disabling the app and new color when selecting to create a folder or page
15. You also get emoji support on both the Samsung and Google keyboard not sure about any other ones tho
16. Screen doesn't unlock when you plug in headphones, it just turns it on as if you pressed the home or power button
17. Wireless printing
If anyone else that has gotten the update and notices anything else that I missed let me know and I'll edit this post. I've included some screen shots of a few of the changes I mentioned above. If there's something anyone would like to see that you were hoping might of changed let me know and I'll check for you and see if it has. And if you want to see any screen shots of anything else I mentioned let me know also. I hope this helps
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My OTA update was downloaded to my phone when I woke up this morning. It installed smoothly. I haven't noticed any big changes so far but haven't really looked. Though I understand the staggered releases aren't done on a geographic basis, I'm in Denver, in case anyone wants to know.
I got the update this morning in Los Angeles. A couple of apps did not start correctly (Pandora and Maps). I cleared the data for those apps, and they have been running fine since. So far, I haven't noticed much difference. The battery seems to be lasting longer, but it is still too early to make any real conclusion.
Got it a couple days ago OTA... Naperville, IL. No big differences to me other than gps seems to requesting location more often than before.
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Yea there's no real big difference, but there's little small changes here and there. You'll notice them the more you keep exploring the new update
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Hello, I went into the sprint zone and saw where the PRL update was available and tried to update, but it said it was updated. I then called sprint and they said the new update was there, but hasn't completely pushed thru. I really don't know cause most agents just blow smoke up your but.
USMC97
USMC97
You don't go into the sprint zone app, and you don't update the PRL. Go to settings, tap more. Then scroll down till you see system update, then tap on update Samsung software and hit the check for updates button. Hope that helps
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I totally know you don't go into the sprint zone to do and update. For your info, I'm not new at this. I was just exploring my phone. Thank you.
USMC97
USMC97
My apologies. From reading what you posted it seemed like you didn't know, but I see that you do.
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anyone know if the update is going through kies? i have a note 2 as a spare phone thats not active that i want to update. but no luck though kies.
On an article I read, it said that it was only available via OTA
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