First and foremost, I'm debating whether to install a custom ROM on it. I have an S3 running Carbon on it (I can't stand Touchwiz...it angers me to no end) and I'm curious whether there's any crucial features that I will lose on the Note 8 if I ROM it.
I recently started a Post Grad program after a few years of being out of school and first and foremost this will be a note taking/E-Textbook device (back in my day, we had to carry multiple 10 pound text books in our back packs...man kids got it good these days!). Which leads me to my next question: what apps would you guys recommend for that? I already have Papyrus installed (haven't used it yet though), but is there anything else worth checking out? Also, are there any particular ROM's or Launchers that are more geared towards a device like this (Pen capabilities and all).
Thanks in advance
Hi. Note 8 is great device as it is. I would reccomend to stay with touchwiz and original Rom as many custom roms have broken s-pen functionality. Try to update it to newest version - thats all. As for Note talking build in app are top notch IMHO. You have two complete solution - just spend time to learn one of them as they surpass papyrus greatly as a complete solution not only to create but also to manage notes.
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Also check out:
LectureNotes + LectureRecordings
Write
ListNote
Audio Master Floating
ezPDF Reader
SimpleMind
Snap Pad Free
And not directly related but brilliant for multitasking and management from within any app:
Taskbar 7
FaeMinx said:
Also check out:
LectureNotes + LectureRecordings
Write
ListNote
Audio Master Floating
ezPDF Reader
SimpleMind
Snap Pad Free
And not directly related but brilliant for multitasking and management from within any app:
Taskbar 7
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Thanks! That Simple Mind app will be very useful for group work at school.
I just stumbled upon this app and I must say it's amazing. Only in beta, but it's a godsend.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visionobjects.stylusmobile.v3_2_store
Hi,
I know that there is a discussion thread for 4.3 but instead here I'm interested in those that have or are thinking about downgrading back to 4.1.
I've been using Sony/Ericsson phones for years and most upgrades are good, but some aren't. One of the worst decisions probably was when they upgraded phones with 512mb RAM to 4.0. The phones became so slow that they were almost unusable. It was a perfect example of when an upgrade with an attractive Sony marketing appeal didn't work out well for the average user.
I upgraded normally to 4.3. The phone suddenly kept freezing until it could not be used at all. I had to remove the battery repeatedly. The next day I reinstalled the software via PCC to try to repair. The same situation. I changed the SI codes to other firmware. The same situation. I tried SUS and reset the phone entirely. This helped a little, the freezing is gone. However, there are a few annoyances I have left:
Why I'm Downgrading
1. Almost every time that I press the Home key, the screen stutters like it's having a heart attack. The screen kind of flashes white and black then eventually goes to home. What the heck is that?
2. I like the white UI but I don't like the themes or the dark colours in the SMS/phonebook. I much prefer the bright, happy colours of 4.1.
3. Everytime that I open the phonebook it takes several seconds. The phonebook is one of the apps supposed to be kept in constant memory. Why is closed and reopened all of the time? It's a primary function of a phone and it should work properly.
4. The phone feels slower, despite resetting the phone, repairing the software about 3 times. Why? That is not an upgrade.
5. People talk about the new Xperia Themes and yet they are broken. You have to unlock your bootloader to root to use a theme? That is insane and I'm not voiding warranty for a theme. It was a nice idea advertised by Sony about the 4.3 update (I have the screenshot) and now it is removed from the 4.3 advert. They screwed it up is why.
6. I cannot see any benefit in gaming graphics/speed/whatever else people want to imagine.
What I Need to Upgrade
When a new, major Sony update comes, I've often found it to be very buggy. But, some time later, a new, smaller upgrade comes that fixes many things I wait for that.
1. No lag.
2. No screen freezing / stuttering
Have you downgraded to 4.1? Are you thinking about it?
Please - this is for a genuine discussion with like-minded people. If you think talking about 4.1 is crazy, please no rude comments.
I agree.
And don't forget, the battery drains quicker.
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I never upgraded due to there not being a root method for 4.3 with locked bootloader. Like I mentioned, there really is no reason to upgrade especially if they still haven't fixed the blue tint camera problem in low light
i think u guys are not installed cleanly...
becoz mine in 4.3 is awesome,no lag,opengl3.0 activated meaning lot of games which has more graphics will work smoothly,..
bug is themer,battery draining /...but themer has fixer...after that i love 4.3...lot of cool themes...i m using spiderman 2 now
may be sony will fix the both in next update...
4.3 has lot of ported camera,apps...
try them...even z2 camera is ported...
camera quality is improved and can be stored in sd directly ...[till now i didnt face blue tint pics]
I haven't got any issues that you mentioned. I updated my phone via Sony PC companion and then made a factory reset. Everything works fine except few little bugs like not working themes or disappearing Google now shortcut (but I like this bug because this nav bar ring sometimes is really annoying).
p.s.
About battery life: I totally don't feel any difference.
True, phone app doesn't keep in ram but it opens fast (like 2 seconds) so I don't care.
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The only reason I'm not upgrading is because there is no full root for locked bootloaders , im just gonna have to wait
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paper13579 said:
The only reason I'm not upgrading is because there is no full root for locked bootloaders , im just gonna have to wait
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Oh yeah this is the biggest 4.3 issue because with root we can solve all other problems
Good to see others think the same. Also, because I repaired the software and did a factory reset a few times, I don't know why it would be a bad flash? I did try a few times.
I updated and honestly it's smooth and the battery life is equal or better than 4.1 and everything loads quite quick aswell so I'm happy with it at the time being
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i just reverted back to 4.1.2, its better overall.
Guys I need urgent help. I cannot restore my sms and contacts after downgrading. I used my backup data from 4.3 using Sony PCC and the built-in restore utility of xperia M, both reports successful after completing the restoration, but after I reboot, I still dont have my contacts and sms.
Ok, right there is a performance issue but some other that op mentioned.
After few days of using multitasking is much more worse than after reboot. I've had the same problem on 4.2 Anyone facing this?
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Use youlu address book
prince10t said:
i just reverted back to 4.1.2, its better overall.
Guys I need urgent help. I cannot restore my sms and contacts after downgrading. I used my backup data from 4.3 using Sony PCC and the built-in restore utility of xperia M, both reports successful after completing the restoration, but after I reboot, I still dont have my contacts and sms.
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I always use online synchronization of my contacts. So I could change my phone without worrying of contacts.
I trust "youlu address book" for the same for more than 5 years. Actually I love its dialer feature.
we could download contacts to any phone (symbian, android, ios, windows)
Everything works fine here, I did a factory reset 3 days ago and haven't really encountered any issues yet...I can live without root for now, I don't currently have sdcard at all actually, I have a couple of bigger games installed(shadowgun, riptide, minecraft) and a small music collection and I still have 450 mb left. Battery lasts for 1 full day and a half for me, it's more than enough. Therefore, I'm keeping it.
prince10t said:
i just reverted back to 4.1.2, its better overall.
Guys I need urgent help. I cannot restore my sms and contacts after downgrading. I used my backup data from 4.3 using Sony PCC and the built-in restore utility of xperia M, both reports successful after completing the restoration, but after I reboot, I still dont have my contacts and sms.
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Yeah this happened to me too. If you ever try 4.3 again, you'll see that it reads your SMS and contacts fine. So if it's backed up in 4.3 and restored in 4.1, those two parts don't come out right. Have you ever backed up contacts to your SD card?
If you have no other option, you would have to restore 4.3, restore the backup, then backup contacts to SD in phonebook and use an app to save SMS.
iks8 said:
Ok, right there is a performance issue but some other that op mentioned.
After few days of using multitasking is much more worse than after reboot. I've had the same problem on 4.2 Anyone facing this?
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It's strange that some of us have 4.3 working great and the rest of us don't. Plenty of us here know how to flash properly, upgrade, reset or repair in bad cases. I do not know!
Can confirm the performance hit. Apps that are affected include Home (album widget loads noticeably slowly). Album app also loads images slower. Superuser permission requests seem slower (really odd). Also I noticed that Titanium Backup is not able to uninstall system apps (Had to use another app from Play). Will update my experiences.
Overall I also think the phone itself felt snappier with 4.1.2. The lockscreen music player access is absent in 4.3, though themes are a welcome addition.
I've decided to stick with 4.3 for some more time and see if I can work through. Downgrading to 4.1 is definitely on my list though.
thinking to downgrade to 4.1
As all greedy guys out there, i updated my xperia m c1904 to 4.3... 5 days back...
Thing i've noticed so far
1.Getting struck while pressing the home button ( like a jerk)
2.Missing google now on press-hold and drag on the home button.
3.The main reason i updated to 4.3 is for the colorful themes, which seem to be missing as the phone has to be rooted( i dont wanna screw my warranty ) for accessing those themes, so i'm struck with the default themes.
4. The album and the walkman player take quite sometime to open although there is no lag after opening. This is a minor issue i can ignore though.
5. The worst part of 4.3 is the disability of not being able to function the equalizer app to boost the volume. Yes, i am an audiophile and i'd like to listen at loud volumes in my earphones. Whichever equalizer app i install fails to boost the volume of the phone. I haven't found this issue in 4.1 so I might be thinking more for this reason to downgrade my phone.
6.Another worst part is the contact and the call log loading slower than 4.1, when i receive a call it takes about 5secs to display the name which i already have in my phonebook, this is plain annoying and disgusting.
I've heard a lot in forums that a factory reset might help. I'm resetting my phone now, will update if any improvements.
Thanks
srikars93 said:
2.Missing google now on press-hold and drag on the home button.
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This happens to me, but situationally. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't....
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ansebovi said:
i think u guys are not installed cleanly...
becoz mine in 4.3 is awesome,no lag,opengl3.0 activated meaning lot of games which has more graphics will work smoothly,..
bug is themer,battery draining /...but themer has fixer...after that i love 4.3...lot of cool themes...i m using spiderman 2 now
may be sony will fix the both in next update...
4.3 has lot of ported camera,apps...
try them...even z2 camera is ported...
camera quality is improved and can be stored in sd directly ...[till now i didnt face blue tint pics]
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Pardon me, how do you active openGL 3.0? Your wording seems as if there is one buried setting that I haven't turned on. I haven't noticed at ALL any improvements to my game, probably even more lag, but I ain't sure cuz I have really bad memory.
Keep in mind that OpenGL ES 3.0 won't make games magically run faster, you'll only see benefits if you run an game or app optimized to use OpenGL ES 3.0 (and there isn't many around -- right now I remember only of Dolphin emulator). Also, any ROM based on Android 4.3 will have OpenGL ES 3.0 enabled, there is no way of turning it off...
Anyone tried the new 104mb update that just come out, says it adds ui improvements and stability. Also adds kid mode.
Installed it earlier. Haven't really played with it that much yet. Still can't get rid of the magazine ui though. Seems OK to me so far.
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simacca said:
Installed it earlier. Haven't really played with it that much yet. Still can't get rid of the magazine ui though. Seems OK to me so far.
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but you guys know you can really minimize the impact of MagazineUX by removing all but one of the "magazine home pages", and then putting only ONE widget on the last remaining page (something low on resources; like Calendar!).
When I did that (removed all magazine pages except for 1, and only had 1 widget (calendar) on the last page) I no longer noticed any UI lag. I was pretty happy with it.
locutusx said:
but you guys know you can really minimize the impact of MagazineUX by removing all but one of the "magazine home pages", and then putting only ONE widget on the last remaining page (something low on resources; like Calendar!).
When I did that (removed all magazine pages except for 1, and only had 1 widget (calendar) on the last page) I no longer noticed any UI lag. I was pretty happy with it.
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That's what I did, but would like the option to disable it like I can on my s5.
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I like the MagazineUX, i haven't had any lag, maybe a few stutters but that's disappeared since the last 2 updates
bruteoutlawz said:
I like the MagazineUX, i haven't had any lag, maybe a few stutters but that's disappeared since the last 2 updates
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I don't get any lag with it anymore. It just feels dis-jointed compared to the rest of the experience. Would also of liked a screen mode option so I can turn down the saturation.
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could someone post a build number after flashing the update?
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I'm looking for an app that will alert me on my SW3 that I've been sitting too long. What apps are available and do they help to regularly alert you to stand up and move around?
This one is good for me: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dyna.logix.wear.inactivity.tracker.stand.up.alert.
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This idea is just great but i see that there're not many app like that on Play Store. most of sitting alert apps only let you set a period of time and alarm you to stand up.
MoveUp! Sitting Alert for Wear advertise that they get this feature but i haven't tried it yet
try it if you want
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.w9.moveupalert
apk: http://choilieng.com/apk-on-pc/pl.w9.moveupalert.apk
Hello all!
I have a North American Note 10+, stock firmware and kernel, no mods.
Ever since the last update that Samsung pushed a couple weeks ago, I have an issue where any app running the background will automatically close.
This is especially noticeable in a couple games I play. I can be in the game. Minimize to the homescreen. Then immediately go back to the game but it has to re-open from scratch. It never used to do this, before it would simply resume from where it was.
I have gone through all the battery optimization settings. I put the phone in High Performance mode. I've turned off Adaptive bettery, I've set all apps to never sleep, set Background Activity to can't be restricted, and have not optimized battery usage for the app.
No difference.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Extremely annoying update.
TIA!
Developer mode and chose allowed 4 background aplikactions.
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check the battery management, mine has reset a couple of times since the first android 10 update, was mainly a problem for me as stuff like gmail started to shut down in the background meaning I wouldn't get emails. it's worth checking as the battery management seemed to get way to repressive after android 10.
worth a check as it's a quick and easy fix just check the battery management.
szkrable said:
Developer mode and chose allowed 4 background aplikactions.
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How do i access Developer Mode? Thank-you!
Belimawr said:
check the battery management, mine has reset a couple of times since the first android 10 update, was mainly a problem for me as stuff like gmail started to shut down in the background meaning I wouldn't get emails. it's worth checking as the battery management seemed to get way to repressive after android 10.
worth a check as it's a quick and easy fix just check the battery management.
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Can you elaborate on what, specifically, I"m looking for in Battery Management? I've gone through all the Battery Optimization/Adaptive settings... Thank-you!
developer options: sattings-about phone-software information-tap build number 7 times.go back to setiings and scroll to the bottom under about phone should now be developer options-background process limit
DavanWo said:
Hello all!
I have a North American Note 10+, stock firmware and kernel, no mods.
Ever since the last update that Samsung pushed a couple weeks ago, I have an issue where any app running the background will automatically close.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Extremely annoying update.
TIA!
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This may help as well (Lock apps in RAM/recents)
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/lock-apps-memory-your-samsung-galaxy-0276787/
The developer setting isn't a solution, and will make it worse.
The standard behavior will adapt it automatically according to how much RAM is available, so a lot more than 4 by default.
for this reason i did not upgrade one ui 2.1, due to unable to lock multiple apps in background, in one ui 2.1 just one app is disgusting to lock, and top of that that phone slowdown in benchmark, so decided to stick to one ui 2 december update itself
Strange since the new settings of 2.1 are meant especially to do that.