**** The Official Note 4 thread ****
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Anyone used Heimdall to root this thing?
Well.....after a fair few crashes of TouchWiz, have now gone back to using Nova and feel much happer about things.
Have had an issue where my notification LED was not coming on, but think this was down to removing Macrodroid after it had disabled the LED...
All that said, I am now finding myself waving away from Samsung. Having only just got 5.1.1, my gut feeling is that this may be the last update for the Note 4. A hoping that they can to actually putting Marshmallow out for it, but am not going to hold my breath.
Have 12 months left on my phone plan, so will hang on until the end, but am not sure whta to do at the end of it all. I can feel one part of me wanting to try an iPhone again.....
. Who knows what will be round in 12 months time, but if the next itteration of the Note is similar to the 5, then I will not be going for it. Am not liking the fact of not having the SD card slot (yep, I know the iPhone does not have one either, but am not sold on that one) Have a linking for the Z5P, but not fully looked at it all.
Have had an issue where my notification LED was not coming on, but think this was down to removing Macrodroid after it had disabled the LED...
All that said, I am now finding myself waving away from Samsung. Having only just got 5.1.1, my gut feeling is that this may be the last update for the Note 4. A hoping that they can to actually putting Marshmallow out for it, but am not going to hold my breath.
Have 12 months left on my phone plan, so will hang on until the end, but am not sure whta to do at the end of it all. I can feel one part of me wanting to try an iPhone again.....
. Who knows what will be round in 12 months time, but if the next itteration of the Note is similar to the 5, then I will not be going for it. Am not liking the fact of not having the SD card slot (yep, I know the iPhone does not have one either, but am not sold on that one) Have a linking for the Z5P, but not fully looked at it all.
I'm inclined to agree. Samsung haven't exactly covered themselves in glory with past updates.
People bash Apple but at least with them you KNOW you will get updates for at least 3 years and you can have them on the day of release.
It's one of the biggest factors that made me change from my Note 4 to an iPhone. Waiting a year for Samsung to fix the lag that the Note 4 shipped with was pathetic. Even then the UK BTU update was a month or two after the initial ones started rolling out, and many months after other phones were getting the 5.1 update.
It's one of the biggest flaws with Android. Updates become something you're waiting and wishing for, rather than just getting and enjoying. Apple released 9.1 the other day, and I had it installed no more than 20 minutes after I first saw it mentioned online.
All very good points that I have to agree with.
It would be amazing if someone in Samsung phones department one day said to the others....'I know what we should do for our next phone? We should develop the great hardware that we have always had, but, and here is the crazy part, we should just stick with a bog standard vanilla Android. None of our crazy TouchWiz and bloat malarkey and when the updates come out from Google, we push them globally.'
That would be a winning model for them to adopt. How many people who own Sammys now and are fed up would bite their hands off and be happy bunnies?
Samsung always say that Touchwiz etc is the only way for them to differentiate themselves from others with the software. The funny thing is though, that if they did as you suggest, it would be a major differentiator for them.
Never going to happen though. They tried it with the GPE version of the S4.
Echoe Rom seems to be the most developed, but even then I was having loads of crashes with it, so resorted back to stock
List of Confirmed Samsung devices to get Android Marshmallow Updates by Early 2016
Samsung devices confirmed to get official Android Marshmallow updates:
- Samsung Galaxy Note 5
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+
- Samsung Galaxy S6
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Duos
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Duos
- Samsung Galaxy Note Edge
- Samsung Galaxy ALPHA
- Samsung Galaxy Tab A
Samsung devices confirmed to get official Android Marshmallow updates:
- Samsung Galaxy Note 5
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+
- Samsung Galaxy S6
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Duos
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Duos
- Samsung Galaxy Note Edge
- Samsung Galaxy ALPHA
- Samsung Galaxy Tab A
Are you sure the SD card is not a copy card and fakes the amount of real space ? Many of these fake cards about sold as originals or the SD card is just damaged and you need a new one or send it back for a replacement.
I'd be running H2TestW on that thing.
Smacks of faked capacity to me, got stung with in a similar way a few years back, on all packaging and system information it was a 32gb card, but after running some tests found it was a 2gb one with a faked capacity.
Smacks of faked capacity to me, got stung with in a similar way a few years back, on all packaging and system information it was a 32gb card, but after running some tests found it was a 2gb one with a faked capacity.
