**** The Official Note 4 thread ****

After reading some reviews I have to say I've gotten over my Nexus 6 envy. I'm keeping the Note 4 and I can't wait to get lollipop on it. Rooting and Xposed will hopefully let me iron out the rough edges of Touchwiz. The only issue I have really is the long delay when pressing the multitasking button. If that was somehow fixed then it would be the perfect phone.
 
As the "new" novelty has worn off.

Are people still generally happy with the Note 4?

What do you hate most about it?

Not trying to be negative just wondering what if any things were a common dislike with the majority.

I've suddenly gotten cold feet with the nexus 6...
 
As a hater of TouchWiz, it doesn't bother me too much on the Note4. Only when I pull down the notification bar am I reminded of this travesty. The software bloat is still there though until you root. The whole experience is very smooth and fluid though.

My biggest gripe, though some may not see it as one is the small notification LED. My S3 had a massive LED yet this thing is small and has horizontal lines going through it, which is part of the pattern under the glass I guess.

Camera bump I agree on, hence the purchase of a case (always use my phones naked. Those chamfered sides are sharp - tend to notice it on lengthy phone calls.

So far I am on 1d 8hrs on my phone with 29% remaining. Not sure if that's good or bad but the fact that I haven't charged this thing all day speaks a lot for me.
 
Carabia83 said:
As the "new" novelty has worn off.

Are people still generally happy with the Note 4?

What do you hate most about it?

Not trying to be negative just wondering what if any things were a common dislike with the majority.

I've suddenly gotten cold feet with the nexus 6...
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mines sometimes sluggish. not as slick as i hope and something is draining my battery but all it says on the power management is that android systems is eating up my battery.

I need to root it now just so i can use wakelock detector/better battery stats to see whats up
 
I will say that I love this phone but only after using exposes and disabling the Samsung DVFS. Before then it would get sluggish and underclock the cpu and gpu too easily and in demanding games it would turn them into a slow mess.
Now its a smooth as butter and so easy to change from Interactive to performance setting for games.

I do find it cheap to advertise a phone at 2.7ghz but then it underclocks so easily on android 4.4 to half that speed.
 
kona786 said:
Touchwiz still looks and feels low rent and tacky. Camera bump is annoying and the metal band is just on the right side of not feeling too sharp and uncomfortable. Other than that it's a great phone.
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No complaints on TouchWiz as it's fast and smooth. The bump would annoy me but I'm using a case so it's not an issue. I'm very happy with the package, it is a great phone.
 
Matson said:
I will say that I love this phone but only after using exposes and disabling the Samsung DVFS. Before then it would get sluggish and underclock the cpu and gpu too easily and in demanding games it would turn them into a slow mess.
Now its a smooth as butter and so easy to change from Interactive to performance setting for games.

I do find it cheap to advertise a phone at 2.7ghz but then it underclocks so easily on android 4.4 to half that speed.
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do you need to be rooted to disable it?
 
Matson said:
I will say that I love this phone but only after using exposes and disabling the Samsung DVFS. Before then it would get sluggish and underclock the cpu and gpu too easily and in demanding games it would turn them into a slow mess.
Now its a smooth as butter and so easy to change from Interactive to performance setting for games.

I do find it cheap to advertise a phone at 2.7ghz but then it underclocks so easily on android 4.4 to half that speed.
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Mine is out for delivery - with DPD, so I can follow my delivery driver like some kind of online stalker, counting down the deliveries until it arrives. Only 44 deliveries between me and my Note 4! :D
 
Threes estimated delivery has now been pushed back to the 21st! Time to cancel. Unfortunately you can only do it via the phone and the reason I am ordering a new one is the speakers on my current phone are totally dead!
 
utajoker said:
Ive not rooted mine. Do i need to to get the best out of it?
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The only real reason I'm thinking of rooting is to be able to decrease the DPI, so I can make better use of the huge screen by fitting more on. Unless anyone knows a way to do this without rooting?

For those that couldn't sit through my 34 minute review... a shorter version :)

 
So far my Note4 is sitting at 1d 20hrs with 4hrs 25min SoT time. Battery is sitting at 12% so far. Such a big difference from my Find5. Just plonked a 32GB SDCard into my unit and completely forgot about KitKat blocking writing to external cards. Now I really do have to root :(
 
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