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Random reboots

Had the phone for just over 24 hours and have had two random reboots. Anyone else or is it just me?
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Nop' Just you !

Perhaps it's something I've installed.
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Lots of apps haven't updated for 4.2 yet...

And I trust you've installed the OTA update?

Yep, updated almost immediately.
If it keeps doing it I'll start uninstalling stuff.... I suspect something with an active widget, so HD Widgets or Astrid...
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Don't have that problem here
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Have had 3 reboots in 3 days twice while using Dolphin browser and once when using the mini info app.

My first was half way through a YouTube video, the second was just after loading tapatalk I think....
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LargePig said:
Yep, updated almost immediately.
If it keeps doing it I'll start uninstalling stuff.... I suspect something with an active widget, so HD Widgets or Astrid...
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I think its the apps not being updated for 4.2 tbh. I got the launcher to FC on me with Friend caster not long after I posted.

I hope so, but I've not had a single random reboot on my N7. Plenty of FCs mind you!
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I actually had a random reboot about 20 minutes ago. I have an HD Widget clock on my lockscreen. I think mine happened while using Tapatalk though. Glad someone else experienced this. It was my only one so far though but I've had the phone <24 hours

I might try taking my HD Widgets off for a while.
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LargePig said:
Yep, updated almost immediately.
If it keeps doing it I'll start uninstalling stuff.... I suspect something with an active widget, so HD Widgets or Astrid...
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I'm using HD Widgets and have not had any force closes. I have one on my home screen and another on a lock screen. However, it does seem to be using a lot of battery (7% of usage).

Hmm.. I haven't had any reboots yet, working perfectly.
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I had some random reboots. I think about 10 since friday...

Have had 2 random reboots. Once during Netflix testing 20 minutes into Breaking Bad and once when I turned on the phone and the screen was frozen for a few seconds.

I've had the phone since Thursday haven't had any random reebots
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NFC Sharing

Has anybody tried to use the NFC feature? I tried to use it with a galaxy nexus and an S3 and no luck...this is a feature I was really looking forward to
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You have to activate it. Turn NFC on in settings >>more >>NFC.
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I was just doing it today at Thanksgiving dinner with 2 different Galaxy S3 phones. It works really well.

Depends what your trying to send. I tried sending a picture using beam from my note 2 to my nexus 4 and it didn't work, it did using drop box. I'm assuming it had to do with the two gallery apps not being the same.

It is activated. And I tried sending photos too but it didn't work. I sent a YouTube video though. Its all I could send
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sending pics only work on Jellybean. If the other device was still ICS it won't go. I tried to send a pic to my GF's Skyrocket and it wouldn't go. sent one to my sister's gNex with Jellybean and it went just fine.

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It is activated. And I tried sending photos too but it didn't work. I sent a YouTube video though. Its all I could send
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It's because they don't use the same gallery app.

paper_kiwi said:
Depends what your trying to send. I tried sending a picture using beam from my note 2 to my nexus 4 and it didn't work, it did using drop box. I'm assuming it had to do with the two gallery apps not being the same.
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Not true. Something wrong on your end. I sent a pic from my nexus 4 to note 2 today. Used NFC and gallery open only on nexus 4.
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paper_kiwi said:
It's because they don't use the same gallery app.
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No it isn't. The Gallery app doesn't have anything to do with it.
When you share a picture over beam on a stock Jelly Bean device the receiving device understands that the content to be transferred is a picture and opens a Bluetooth serial connection to the sending device. The file is then transferred over Bluetooth.
Samsung has enhanced this process starting with the S3 (S-Beam) to use Wifi-Direct for much faster transfers. However they invented their own way of doing things (as they often do). Google stated they have plans to migrate to Wifi Direct as well in a later release once the standards flush out (it didn't make it into 4.1 though and doesn't appear to have made it in to 4.2).
The issue from the Note 2 to the N4 is likely a mismatch in that the Note 2 is going to try to use S-Beam (which doesn't work with non Samsung Touchwiz devices) and the N4 is still looking to leverage Bluetooth tunneling.
Going the other way (N4 - Note 2) should work assuming it's running Jelly Bean.

that guy right there^^^^ Nailed it!
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Photo Lag?

Hi
Does anyone have the problem of extreme choppyness and lag when zooming into a photo in the gallery and panning around?
It also seems to happen in quickpic too, and it's very strange indeed. Also quite embaressing when showing your mates a photo and its lagging like hell.
This isn't a problem on the HTC Evo 3d and One S, and tbh any other recent phone I've had. Seems to be Samsung specific and it has persisted on different roms. I'm currently stock 4.1.2 rooted.
Any suggestions? It seems ridiculous how Samsung have not corrected this.
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Do you by any chance turn on power saving mode?
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I have the same, it isnt lag while wifi or 3g is off that much , a bug i think

darkteb said:
Do you by any chance turn on power saving mode?
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Nope
Just seems to be a bug. Do you not have this problem? Power saver mode is on on my HTC One S and it's smooth as butter when panning a photo.
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Tick force gpu rendering in developer settings, it's a quick fix at least.
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adytum said:
Tick force gpu rendering in developer settings, it's a quick fix at least.
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Cheers
But I already had it ticked :what:
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I am not on stock rom and the gallery in Slim Bean 7 works fine with me.
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I'm on stock 4.1.2 rooted but no such problem
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Very strange then. I have had it from the beginning.
I'm on the LTE version though
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Yes I have this too.
While my nexus 7 with the crappy Tegra SoC doesn't lag at all when viewing photos. Makes me think it's only samsung's terrible rom optimization/drivers...
Does AOSP/CM roms have this issue as well?

Yes it lags for me also. I have 2000-3000 photos in gallery and it lags
I'm on stock 4.1.2 with root, and im using 64gb SanDisk ultra.

fade2black101 said:
Hi
Does anyone have the problem of extreme choppyness and lag when zooming into a photo in the gallery and panning around?
It also seems to happen in quickpic too, and it's very strange indeed. Also quite embaressing when showing your mates a photo and its lagging like hell.
This isn't a problem on the HTC Evo 3d and One S, and tbh any other recent phone I've had. Seems to be Samsung specific and it has persisted on different roms. I'm currently stock 4.1.2 rooted.
Any suggestions? It seems ridiculous how Samsung have not corrected this.
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Man, are you sure that Samsung is responsible for everything you did on your rooted phone? Where's your responsibility?
I'm still sitting on 4.1.1 (stock) and everything is ok, no lag (except when go into Widgets and when you clean your RAM).
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artorelis said:
Man, are you sure that Samsung is responsible for everything you did on your rooted phone? Where's your responsibility?
I'm still sitting on 4.1.1 (stock) and everything is ok, no lag (except when go into Widgets and when you clean your RAM).
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Yeah I am sure it is Samsung/the rom. I've done nothing much at all on my rooted phone and this also occurs after a fresh non rooted wipe and also on the 4.1.1 rom. Rooted or unrooted, and fresh from a wipe.
This does not happen on my HTC ONE S or any other HTC Android phone I have had. Rooted or unrooted. The gallery app in general is laggy as hell too but I'll put that down to how many photos I have.
The lag I'm refering to is related to when you pan around a zoomed photo which was taken with the phone camera. And this also applies to non-stock gallery apps.
Will not be taking any responsibility here whatsoever and fully lay the blame at Samsung's door.
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darkchazz said:
Yes I have this too.
While my nexus 7 with the crappy Tegra SoC doesn't lag at all when viewing photos. Makes me think it's only samsung's terrible rom optimization/drivers...
Does AOSP/CM roms have this issue as well?
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Nope.
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How to fix wake up lag

If you are annoyed at the 2+ second wake up lag with the note 3, you can fix it by removing the sd card from the device. sounds weird but it works.

Or you could just disable media scanner.
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I don't have an SD card installed and see the lag.
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PeartFan40 said:
Or you could just disable media scanner.
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how

This lag sucks! Is there anything else i can do to fix this?
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I've used Rescan Media on other phones to keep the phone from scanning the SD card on every boot. I don't know if it'll work on the Note 3, but the phone is fast enough that I don't mind the 2 second lag. (The shortest lag I ever ran into that cost a life was well over 10 seconds. If takes me 2 seconds more to call 911, I don't think anyone's going to die.)

So every time you wake the device it takes 2s? Did it do this out of the box? I doubt it; so I'd suspect it's an app issue, or you've installed a bunch of wonky xposed modules or something.

My phone is stock for the most part. Haven't rooted the phone (killing me btw) but i did install your normal apps.
It lags from time to time and it does bother me. It shouldn't lag like that.
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I unchecked Wake Up Command option in Lock screen settings and lag actually disappeared and hasn't come back.
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wally3614 said:
I unchecked Wake Up Command option in Lock screen settings and lag actually disappeared and hasn't come back.
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Have that turned off as well. Can't be that
This same thing existed on the note 2. It was always said that it was due to the exynos going into such a deep sleep that it took a second or 2 to gather itself and wake up so to say. Someone made an app that would keep a constant wake lock so it wouldn't sleep. Obviously you can guess the side effects but it did work.
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Mine is set to off and I still get lag.
I want to fix it because it drives me nuts
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So, is it possible that it is the button lagging?
I notice a little lag when trying to wake my phone but I also notice lag elsewhere. After the home button is pressed there is a small delay before getting to your launcher. The menu button also has a delay when opening the menu (wallpaper, manage apps etc) on launcher.
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wudien said:
So, is it possible that it is the button lagging?
I notice a little lag when trying to wake my phone but I also notice lag elsewhere. After the home button is pressed there is a small delay before getting to your launcher. The menu button also has a delay when opening the menu (wallpaper, manage apps etc) on launcher.
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On the home button lag do you have s voice activation on via double press of the home button still? If so turn it off, if not.... I got nothing.
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Now it lags when trying to end a call. I tried what I can but not sure what else i can do. I would like to resolve this
I call Att and they put me in touch with samsugn support she suggested sending it to them for them to check it out but i would be without a phone for a week or so.
Not sure
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Ok, not 100÷ yet but thanks to someone else i may have found a solution.
He suggested that the problem comes from the sd card you use. He stated that he removed his old card and got a sandisk and it fixed the issue for him
I had my old pny 32gb card in but it has been giving me problems for a while. The note 3 was not reading it ( was at 1st)
So i took the card out and so far the lag is gone. Both on the lock screen and end call
Ill keep testing but so far there is a change. Weird.
I'm going to pick up a new card(have too) so lets see
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Mayonesa said:
Now it lags when trying to end a call. I tried what I can but not sure what else i can do. I would like to resolve this
I call Att and they put me in touch with samsugn support she suggested sending it to them for them to check it out but i would be without a phone for a week or so.
Not sure
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Ok, not 100÷ yet but thanks to someone else i may have found a solution.
He suggested that the problem comes from the sd card you use. He stated that he removed his old card and got a sandisk and it fixed the issue for him
I had my old pny 32gb card in but it has been giving me problems for a while. The note 3 was not reading it ( was at 1st)
So i took the card out and so far the lag is gone. Both on the lock screen and end call
Ill keep testing but so far there is a change. Weird.
I'm going to pick up a new card(have too) so lets see
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No SD card here and it lags. Can't be it. That might help if using an SD card but not a full solution as there's last without one as well.
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Well it has helped me. Since i took out my sd my phone hasn't lagged like before.
Even though it is the same phone each make act different. As an example, the guy got a SanDisk card and he was fine. May not work for my phone. So far removing the card helped me.
Shouldn't be like this. Our phones should all work perfectly but that is not the case. With this phone and others i have had in the past.
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Still no lag and battery seems to be better as well, unlike before
Unplugged at 0900 and its now 1400 and im at 92÷ with normal use. Calls etc.
I just hope then the new sd card i get works well
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I get no lag with my att note 3 with the no SD card. Wakes instantly. Stock
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Must be an issue with the earlier release models. I got mine less than a month ago and has a 32GB PNY card and no issues whatsoever. In fact it has NONE OF THE ISSUES stated in any of the threads on this site. If I press the wake button, bam! there it is. So this must be an issue for you early buyers.

I got my note 3 about 3 weeks ago. Dont know what model it is because i haven't looked.
My previous sd was given me problems before, had to reformat it twice and when I took it out it wasn't working. So maybe that was the issue.
I have a SanDisk card coming so lets see how that goes.
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Microsdxc ultra or extreme?

Hello, did any of you test these cards from Sandisk on your Note 3? Any issues found? If you have any experience, please share. And also will i find any real difference between ultra and extreme version? I want to record 4K and 1080P videos, so that might be importand to me. Thank you!
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I'm getting my ultra soon, so I can let you know. I think it is more than sufficient.
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encho said:
I'm getting my ultra soon, so I can let you know. I think it is more than sufficient.
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Ok, dont forget me! Thanks!
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ioannis66 said:
Ok, dont forget me! Thanks!
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I use a a Sandisk 64gb Ultra in both my GoPro Hero 3 BE and my GN3. I record a lot of motorcycle rides, events and other things
Never a problem.

weedahoe said:
I use a a Sandisk 64gb Ultra in both my GoPro Hero 3 BE and my GN3. I record a lot of motorcycle rides, events and other things
Never a problem.
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I also use a SanDisk Ultra 64gb but had mixed results.
The card usually performs great (half-full) but I have seen 2 types of issues, probably tied to the water-damage on my S4 and now trying to see how it lives on a Note 3 (which has the infamous boot-loop issue, apparently solvable by triggering a reboot through recovery).
My old device randomly ejects the card (especially during intensive access, like Spotify reading cache) and can also popup a write error message when copying files through Solid Explorer : when this happens the data will be lost and on reboot the card reverts to it's last state.
If, after a few weeks, it still works fine on the Note 3, I will try to update this feedback with results.
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ioannis66 said:
Ok, dont forget me! Thanks!
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I received my card and did few videos, both 1080p and 4k. Zero issues so far. Will do some more action shots when I have a chance.
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How much space does it take a 5min 4K video on the sd card?
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