4.3 update for Note 2: Post your results and feedback here
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mine is UCAMC3 it says update is available and downloads 750MB or so...restarts and fails installing at 32% consistently.
not sure what's going on.
ATT Galaxy Note 2 i317
not sure what's going on.
ATT Galaxy Note 2 i317
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My God. So many horror stories, in so many forums and so little time to read them all.
I have not attempted to install 4.3 on my Galaxy Note II (AT&T variant) and I don't plan on doing so in the near future.
My Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 version works perfectly fine, thank you.
The second-to-last thing I would ever consider doing is manually checking for an update (via Settings/About device/Software update) and installing anything that I found available (the first thing I would NEVER consider doing would be rooting my device).
To date, I have not received an official notification (on my device) from AT&T that I should install anything and I am certainly NOT going to force the issue manually.
Common sense (if not years of experience) dictates otherwise.
Meanwhile I will patiently sit here using my device and watch all the rest of you rush to jump off the cliff.
End-users never fail to amuse me with their ignorance.
It's just my opinion, but the vast majority of you should probably just put your device back into the packaging it originally came in and return it to the nearest store. You don't deserve technology.
I have not attempted to install 4.3 on my Galaxy Note II (AT&T variant) and I don't plan on doing so in the near future.
My Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 version works perfectly fine, thank you.
The second-to-last thing I would ever consider doing is manually checking for an update (via Settings/About device/Software update) and installing anything that I found available (the first thing I would NEVER consider doing would be rooting my device).
To date, I have not received an official notification (on my device) from AT&T that I should install anything and I am certainly NOT going to force the issue manually.
Common sense (if not years of experience) dictates otherwise.
Meanwhile I will patiently sit here using my device and watch all the rest of you rush to jump off the cliff.
End-users never fail to amuse me with their ignorance.
It's just my opinion, but the vast majority of you should probably just put your device back into the packaging it originally came in and return it to the nearest store. You don't deserve technology.
I just updated to 4.3 a few days ago no issues whatsoever, did it manually since there was no notification of some sort, It works better than 4.1.2 with better reception and weather widget finally works, instead of manually turning on gps, with just locations turned on in the settings, battery life seems like it works better with this update, but I have a battery saver app to compensate with brightness in the low settings and turns off data overnight. Only thing I don't like is the bloatware apps and Foxfi not compatible with this updated version.
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I have the GT-N7105 on T-Mobile UK and got the 4.3 update a week or so ago. Since then battery life has been appalling. Used to have close to 50% left at the end of the day (I'm a very light user) and now it asks to be plugged in by about 4pm. I've just done a factory reset today and am still getting all my apps reloaded and logged into all my accounts. Will see how it goes tomorrow.
Horror stories?? This is no different than any other carrier update.
Anytime you do a software upgrade, you should always plan on doing a reset. Almost every one of these issues that people are experiencing are almost always corrected with a factory reset.
Anytime you do a software upgrade, you should always plan on doing a reset. Almost every one of these issues that people are experiencing are almost always corrected with a factory reset.
I didn't have to do a factory reset but I found the battery life has improved! It is about the same if I am out and have no WiFi connection.. using 4G LTE only. But when I am home, with WiFi and only 2 bars of mobile signal, my battery life has doubled or more. Normally at home, my battery will slowly drain about 2 or 3% per hour with the phone just sitting there doing nothing. Now it is almost flat line when it is just sitting there at home.
Not wonderfully! The reset made things slightly better. It now lasts until about eight o'clock at night before demanding power. I shudder to think what the phone will be like if I take it out of the house and use it during the day. Samsung should be ashamed of releasing such a rubbish update.
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After rejecting the update a couple of weeks ago because of all the complaints about it, I decided to go ahead and install it Friday night.
I followed the same process I always do for Android updates. I enabled the 20+ apps I had disabled and backed up everything with My Backup Pro, powered off and cleared the phone's cache, rebooted and downloaded and installed the update. Following successful completion of the update, I powered down again and cleared the cache and rebooted. I then proceeded to disabling all the apps I don't need/use and rebooted again.
The update seems perfectly fine to me. I've noticed much better battery life today than before the update after slightly worse yesterday. My phone seems faster and I don't really notice anything any different than 4.1.2 except for the changes of how things look, like the email app having the buttons at the bottom now and the transparent notification bar among other things that people have mentioned.
Totally happy with this update. It seems if you take the time to research before the update and follow some simple dos and don'ts, the update usually goes fine.
I followed the same process I always do for Android updates. I enabled the 20+ apps I had disabled and backed up everything with My Backup Pro, powered off and cleared the phone's cache, rebooted and downloaded and installed the update. Following successful completion of the update, I powered down again and cleared the cache and rebooted. I then proceeded to disabling all the apps I don't need/use and rebooted again.
The update seems perfectly fine to me. I've noticed much better battery life today than before the update after slightly worse yesterday. My phone seems faster and I don't really notice anything any different than 4.1.2 except for the changes of how things look, like the email app having the buttons at the bottom now and the transparent notification bar among other things that people have mentioned.
Totally happy with this update. It seems if you take the time to research before the update and follow some simple dos and don'ts, the update usually goes fine.
Hi ReginaLiz,
I don't know if you already found a solution to your problem. I downloaded the upgrade to 4.3 about two weeks ago and started having the same problem with S Note a few days after the download. I kept trying to open S Note, by touching the home screen an also the app icon on the apps screen, and it would not work (have some very important notes on that app that I couldn't afford to lose!).
I then pulled the S Pen out, which opened a blank note, scribbled something on it and then saved it. When I then tried to open S Note, it was working again. I honestly don't know if it was because of the S Pen or what, but I have not had any more problems.
Hope this helps,
Ana
I don't know if you already found a solution to your problem. I downloaded the upgrade to 4.3 about two weeks ago and started having the same problem with S Note a few days after the download. I kept trying to open S Note, by touching the home screen an also the app icon on the apps screen, and it would not work (have some very important notes on that app that I couldn't afford to lose!).
I then pulled the S Pen out, which opened a blank note, scribbled something on it and then saved it. When I then tried to open S Note, it was working again. I honestly don't know if it was because of the S Pen or what, but I have not had any more problems.
Hope this helps,
Ana
As far as the update. Phone seems to be a little faster operating wise. Keypad layout is slightly different. Spellcheck stinks. It disabled the portable wifi hotspot app that I had, defaults to the at+t hot spot which you have to pay extra for. Included a bunch of Samsung apps which I have no use for. If I had read more about this update I would NOT have done it. The email layout is different, better perhaps, but I have to get used to the layout.
The bad part... Knox security. Apparently at this point in time you cannot downgrade back to 4.1.1 or 4.1.2.
Also play music app is set to default to the latest version, so if you like the layout of the older version don't upgrade.
Same goes for gtalk/hangouts. I can't stand the way hangouts is arranged, i won't be using that, ever.
ok, that was my 2 cents.
The bad part... Knox security. Apparently at this point in time you cannot downgrade back to 4.1.1 or 4.1.2.
Also play music app is set to default to the latest version, so if you like the layout of the older version don't upgrade.
Same goes for gtalk/hangouts. I can't stand the way hangouts is arranged, i won't be using that, ever.
ok, that was my 2 cents.
Useless update. Nothing new. No new features. Foxfi doesn't work any more. The new spell check is absolutely unacceptable. Off the top of my head that's the only real changes I've seen with this update. Only two, and they are both really, really bad.
S_F it looks like they disabled the free wife apps. Give it a few months and someone will figure out a hack. Hopefully an easy one.
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Damnit! Wifi apps! Yeah, spellcheck sucks.
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Damnit! Wifi apps! Yeah, spellcheck sucks.
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