Is this the latest firmware?
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Yep. And if you want a rooted phone you won't let it update when there's one available. (Unless someone has figured out how to root the new version without tripping Knox.) The March 15th kernel will root with Towel Root. Anything after June 2nd won't.
Even if you don't care about rooting, read all the complaints about Lollipop. Every manufacturer has a few models that have major bugs with it. Let some people post that their Note 3s are running on Lollipop without problems before you accept the update. So you don't have the latest firmware. Yours works. (Even if I didn't want root - and I won't run a phone without it - I would wait at least a month after AT&T started rolling out the new version before accepting the update - if there were no major bugs. I waited about 4 months for 4.4.2. 4.3 was fine for anything I needed. [And I need a lot from the computer end of the phone, which is one reason I won't run without root.])
Remember - when it comes to update release dates, AT&T doesn't compete for last place - it owns the trophy permanently.
It's released in batches, a few phones at a time. You get the "up to date" response until your handset is in line for the update - which can take weeks to months.
Oh, notice that this isn't Lollipop. The changes are only -
I already run a new design, and if I got the update, I'd revert it to the design I've been using for a few years. I don't use the AT&T address book. Hey, we're in the middle of a blizzard, would you like to buy some snow? Real cheap. (The bridge I have for sale isn't that cheap, though.)
I think AT&T just got the Oak Leaf Cluster on the Snail Update Trophy.
Even if you don't care about rooting, read all the complaints about Lollipop. Every manufacturer has a few models that have major bugs with it. Let some people post that their Note 3s are running on Lollipop without problems before you accept the update. So you don't have the latest firmware. Yours works. (Even if I didn't want root - and I won't run a phone without it - I would wait at least a month after AT&T started rolling out the new version before accepting the update - if there were no major bugs. I waited about 4 months for 4.4.2. 4.3 was fine for anything I needed. [And I need a lot from the computer end of the phone, which is one reason I won't run without root.])
Remember - when it comes to update release dates, AT&T doesn't compete for last place - it owns the trophy permanently.
It's released in batches, a few phones at a time. You get the "up to date" response until your handset is in line for the update - which can take weeks to months.
Oh, notice that this isn't Lollipop. The changes are only -
- AT&T Address Book Fix
(Do you even use the AT&T address book? Almost everyone uses Contacts.) - New Design Fix
Whoopie! I can risk losing root, bricking my phone because of an update glitch (we wrote update software that can't glitch back in 1988 or 1989 - Google hasn't discovered it yet. I'll give them rights to it for 10 cents per phone. Okay, lower - a new Nexus developer edition every year, with rooting and ROMing allowed. ONE PHONE. To guarantee that no Android will ever again be killed by an over the air update. Oh, right, NIH [not invented here], so they aren't interested).
I already run a new design, and if I got the update, I'd revert it to the design I've been using for a few years. I don't use the AT&T address book. Hey, we're in the middle of a blizzard, would you like to buy some snow? Real cheap. (The bridge I have for sale isn't that cheap, though.)
I think AT&T just got the Oak Leaf Cluster on the Snail Update Trophy.
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