4.3 update bricked my note 2

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IT'S ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Santa must have taken pity on me.

So rather than SDS, my phone appears to have had a sudden 42 hour fakeout death.

Upon resurrection I tried that exynos bug checker app, not affected by that one.

I'm tempted now to do a factory reset, just to give the 4.3 update a fighting chance. I probably won't though.

Seriously though Santa .... you rock !!!

I'm visiting family (in 3 locations here in the UK) for the next 2 weeks, so dealing with a Samsung return and being phoneless would have been really annoying.

So, what have we learned ..... not all apparently bricked Note 2's are as apparently bricked as they appear.