Sprint Note 3 Kitkat?

[Ntchwaidumela]

What's the best guess for Kitkat 4.4 coming to the Sprint Note 3? Sprint and Samsung are usually pretty quick with updates.

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[Haalcyon]

Well, I have a feeling that Sprint Note 3's will be force fed some KitKat before others. ...when? I'm consulting the crystal ball and will get back to ya.

 

[Dronak]

What's the best guess for Kitkat 4.4 coming to the Sprint Note 3? Sprint and Samsung are usually pretty quick with updates.

Clearly your experience is different from mine -- Sprint and Samsung were absolutely horrible about getting Android OS updates out to my old original Galaxy S when I had it. I had to wait ~9-10 months for an update and it was not unusual for my phone to be two versions of Android behind the current one. Based on that, I'd say not to expect it before, oh, about August 2014. But elsewhere around here people have said that Samsung has gotten better, which I hope is true, but given my past experience, I'll believe it when I see it.

However, I've read a few things regarding KitKat for the Note 3 -- from it could be out as early as this year to it may not come until after Samsung releases it pre-installed on the Galaxy S5 sometime around spring 2014. I'm not sure there's much good information out there about it, since neither Samsung nor Sprint seems to be saying anything official. FWIW though, I've read elsewhere that KitKat for the Note 3 is supposed to be in testing already; I think those posts all quoted SamMobile as the source (one of their tweets, I think). If that is true though, it suggests that we could get an update sooner rather than later.

 

[pre1561]

I've never had a problem with Sprint and updates.

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[Ntchwaidumela]

Well, I have a feeling that Sprint Note 3's will be force fed some KitKat before others. ...when? I'm consulting the crystal ball and will get back to ya.

My crystal ball says just before Christmas. lol

 

[Ntchwaidumela]

Clearly your experience is different from mine -- Sprint and Samsung were absolutely horrible about getting Android OS updates out to my old original Galaxy S when I had it. I had to wait ~9-10 months for an update and it was not unusual for my phone to be two versions of Android behind the current one. Based on that, I'd say not to expect it before, oh, about August 2014. But elsewhere around here people have said that Samsung has gotten better, which I hope is true, but given my past experience, I'll believe it when I see it.

However, I've read a few things regarding KitKat for the Note 3 -- from it could be out as early as this year to it may not come until after Samsung releases it pre-installed on the Galaxy S5 sometime around spring 2014. I'm not sure there's much good information out there about it, since neither Samsung nor Sprint seems to be saying anything official. FWIW though, I've read elsewhere that KitKat for the Note 3 is supposed to be in testing already; I think those posts all quoted SamMobile as the source (one of their tweets, I think). If that is true though, it suggests that we could get an update sooner rather than later.

My first Sammy was the S3, which may have contributed to my good experience (so far) with updates. Usually, the newest models get upgrades faster. I received all updates in a fairly timely manner. I've heard that Sammy was slow at updating in the past, so I'm not surprised at your previous experiences. As far as the Note 3 (and S4, for that matter), these are now the flagship models for Samsung and they'll be the first to receive Kitkat. I'm sure they've been testing and adapting it on these devices for a while now. I'm thinking we might get a Christmas present and it'll be pushed out OTA just before the holiday.

 

[Haalcyon]

I just hope that when OEM's get ready to roll out updates they do some serious testing. Few things here are more disturbing then to see our fellow community members saddled with problems that were introduced by an update. ...which is one reason I'm never too anxious for them. I'd rather let the updates age a little and hopefully, they'll be ripe when they drop...not premature and buggy...like I'm getting the feeling the 4.3 update for the S4 may have been.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Well, I have a feeling that Sprint Note 3's will be force fed some KitKat before others...

I would certainly hope so since Splint charges $50 more for the phone than its competitors.

 

[Haalcyon]

I would certainly hope so since Splint charges $50 more for the phone than its competitors.

Yeah, there is that.

OptimuS G Pro

 

[mrwallyy]

You would think since the Note 3 is a brand spanking new phone it would have been the first device to receive the update (after Nexus 5). I wonder if other carriers are gonna get to it before Sprint does.

 

[Haalcyon]

You would think since the Note 3 is a brand spanking new phone it would have been the first device to receive the update (after Nexus 5). I wonder if other carriers are gonna get to it before Sprint does.

It depend largely on Samsung. Since they released the phone with 4.3 and are not Googorola it may take them a little longer to prep and release 4.4 to the carriers, who then have to bloat it before feeding it to the hungry natives. It would seem that now that 4.4 has been baked few like the taste of 4.3 anymore.

 

[TenshiNo]

Clearly your experience is different from mine -- Sprint and Samsung were absolutely horrible about getting Android OS updates out to my old original Galaxy S when I had it. I had to wait ~9-10 months for an update and it was not unusual for my phone to be two versions of Android behind the current one. Based on that, I'd say not to expect it before, oh, about August 2014. But elsewhere around here people have said that Samsung has gotten better, which I hope is true, but given my past experience, I'll believe it when I see it.

However, I've read a few things regarding KitKat for the Note 3 -- from it could be out as early as this year to it may not come until after Samsung releases it pre-installed on the Galaxy S5 sometime around spring 2014. I'm not sure there's much good information out there about it, since neither Samsung nor Sprint seems to be saying anything official. FWIW though, I've read elsewhere that KitKat for the Note 3 is supposed to be in testing already; I think those posts all quoted SamMobile as the source (one of their tweets, I think). If that is true though, it suggests that we could get an update sooner rather than later.

"Quick with updates" can be a fairly relative term. Sprint seems not to "sit" on updates from the OEM's like some other carriers do (I'm looking at you, Verizon). There are always several stops along the path to getting these new firmwares out, and any one of them can stop it dead in its tracks.

Now, Samsung was *horrible* back in the S1 and even S2 days. I think it was around the S3 that Samsung really seemed to start taking Android seriously. And, as Android has matured, the AOSP updates have been much more incremental and required a lot less work for the OEM's to get the new version running on an existing phone. That was a *huge* problem a few years back. Between Android 2.0, 2.1, and 2.3 huge changes happened under the hood with how the system worked and required a lot of "re-write" for OEM's to get their feature sets working on the new version.

 

[ecopower04]

Samsung is releasing it in January so hopefully soon after that

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[SalixIncendium]

What has me a bit nervous is I just got away from dreaded Exchange services battery drain issue of 4.1.2 when I picked up my Note 3 and I hear it's rearing its ugly head again in 4.4.

"If you're able to get past the initial [Exchange] account setup and download your email, you might find it a bit disconcerting that new messages never seem to arrive. Not only are you being left out of the loop, this is likely to also produce a continuously repeating sync error, resulting in rapid battery drain. This problem can be very sneaky because it doesn't always present immediately, but can take a few hours or even days before the sync errors start to occur. Several people have suggested toggling sync off and back on, minor changes to settings, and re-entering certificates, but most of these fixes only appear to refresh the connection for a short period of time before it begins to fail again."

[Bug Watch] Exchange Email Badly Broken For Many Android 4.4 Users, No Single Cause Yet Determined