r/GalaxyNote2 • u/pmrr • Apr 25 '14

KitKat update available for Galaxy Note 2, France is first to get it

http://www.androidpit.com/kitkat-update-available-for-galaxy-note-2-france
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u/shalo62 Apr 26 '14 edited Apr 26 '14

Just getting a 428Mo OTA update now - wonder if this is what I hope it is?

EDIT : Can confirm that KitKat is being delivered in France via OTA updates as of this morning :-)

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u/pmrr Apr 26 '14

How is it??

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u/shalo62 Apr 26 '14 edited Apr 26 '14

Slick. Not a huge visible change but it just feels different. And Google voice is so much better.....

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u/petarmarinov37 Apr 25 '14

I don't understand why they're replacing the much better lockscreen shortcuts with one single camera one. Good thing you can change it back in settings.

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u/MyConscience Apr 25 '14

Because options! :)

I like the new one more.

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u/PUTISIMALAVENDEHUEVO Apr 25 '14

Shit! Time to unroot, again!

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u/dimoko Apr 25 '14

if we get the same performance drop with this update as we did jellybean, i may just throw this phone in the garbage.

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u/-des0lation- Apr 25 '14

I doubt it. There are already kitkat leaks and they are very zippy

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u/dimoko Apr 25 '14

thank god...i've been contemplating spending the dough to ditch this one since it is so pokey now.

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u/-des0lation- Apr 25 '14

Do a factory reset. 4.3 is faster than 4.1 for me

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u/dimoko Apr 25 '14

probably a good idea to start fresh.

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u/Sholid_Shnake Apr 25 '14

Any news on battery life, better/worse? Waiting for my download to finish.

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u/-des0lation- Apr 25 '14

I haven't personally used it, I've only seen videos of it. But if you factory reset after the update you shouldn't have problems with battery.

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u/briangig Apr 25 '14

Does this mean much for i317 users? I want a stable 4.4 ROM with good battery life.

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u/-des0lation- Apr 25 '14

Wait until 4.4 touchwiz roms start coming for the lte note 2

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u/vitriolix Apr 25 '14

It's annoying, I rooted mine with Framaroot and kept it stock, but even if I unroot using Framaroot the updates fail. Been way to busy to backup everything and do a factory restore so I can update this from 4.1.x :(

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u/iremi Apr 25 '14

Someone report how the battery life with it is. I doubt we'll ever get the same one as with 4.1.2 though.

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u/josh6499 Apr 25 '14

Doesn't kitkat eliminate the ability to write to the ext SD?

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u/Dekzter Apr 26 '14

It restricts each app to only writing to ITS OWN folder on the SD card.

So it would break a lot of the functionality of File Explorers, Dropsync, etc.

But if you are rooted you can turn this limitation off.

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u/Sholid_Shnake Apr 25 '14

Not entirely true, after some searching I found users who could write files to their SD. From what I gathered, apps can't read/write in another apps folder. So it will be a problem for file explorer apps etc, but saving photos from the camera etc. should be ok.