Still no uk kitkat

Gomjaba · Mar 10, 2014

Well we'll get it eventually ..... I think

Gomjaba · Mar 10, 2014

About time ..

bonerp · Mar 10, 2014

Yup it's here. Let me know if it buggers up your phone and I'll hold off lol

dynomot · Mar 10, 2014

bonerp said:
Yup it's here. Let me know if it buggers up your phone and I'll hold off lol

Same firmware but with added Vodafone apps only works well here. Battery is better, device feels slightly slicker no problems so far. KitKat is a little underwhelming as far as the Note 3 is concerned and what you can actually see, but all is good otherwise.

Gomjaba · Mar 10, 2014

Feels snappier, but just be a placebo though - only time will tell

Simon_Gardner · Mar 10, 2014

Definitely holding off until all you beta testers have pronounced

dynomot · Mar 10, 2014

All we "Beta" testers have SM-N9005 Qualcomm versions I think we'll be fine.

paulw035 · Mar 10, 2014

Can't see any major differences. However I have been using it for the last hour and if anything this beast has just got a little quicker at everything. I'm using the Google search launcher that I got from this site and it just feels a little faster, certainly no lag on app launches.

clitrenta · Mar 10, 2014

I learned a long LONG time ago that stressing over promised updates is pure fools folly. I no longer get involved with conversations about when it's going to come and if it's going to come. It come when it comes. In the mean time, I'm going to enjoy what I have. I only read the first post in this thread and just thought I'd throw my two cents in here. I'm gone now.

bonerp · Mar 10, 2014

clitrenta said:
I learned a long LONG time ago that stressing over promised updates is pure fools folly. I no longer get involved with conversations about when it's going to come and if it's going to come. It come when it comes. In the mean time, I'm going to enjoy what I have. I only read the first post in this thread and just thought I'd throw my two cents in here. I'm gone now.

So you've just contradicted yourself there lol.
Mine seems a bit laggy typing.... Will do a quick restart....

Is it better? Oh yes. Certainly quicker. Will see what happens to the battery.

zoonie · Mar 10, 2014

Downloading now as we speak 383.78mb will let keep you informed as to what its like on an unbranded uk note 3

dynomot · Mar 10, 2014

Drop box link for anyone who wants it to flash with Odin unzip and flash the tar.md5,

SM-N9005 UK STOCK KITKAT (BTU) : SORRY LINK REMOVED - DROP BOX SUSPENDED IT.

As of today 15th March Dropbox suspended public links to my works/my own account?

zoonie · Mar 10, 2014

Well kit kat is fast I will give it that! Only had it an hour. my phone was 100% charged and plugged in during update now it's dropped to 90% so looks like battery is draining much faster for now but I will give it a few days for the battery to settle with the new os and it should improve. Nothing much to show on the outside apart from the notification bar, all icons are now white and the bar itself is transparent

a few tweaks on the swipe lock screen but nothing special. I know 99% of the changes are under the hood and hopefully these will make my phone the best thing since sliced bread ( what was the best thing before slice bread? ) anyway so far so good! lots of playing to be done

zoonie · Mar 10, 2014

Aaarrrggghhhh! !!!!!! Flash does not work full stop! I need Flash to work and I need it NOW!!!

Gomjaba · Mar 10, 2014

100s of Google hits how to enable it under KitKat

zoonie · Mar 10, 2014

That's better! Flash now working slowly but working! Have to use dolphin web browser and a hacked flash apk. If only I could import bookmarks from boat browser to dolphin!!!!!

bonerp · Mar 11, 2014

zoonie said:
Well kit kat is fast I will give it that! Only had it an hour. my phone was 100% charged and plugged in during update now it's dropped to 90% so looks like battery is draining much faster for now but I will give it a few days for the battery to settle with the new os and it should improve. Nothing much to show on the outside apart from the notification bar, all icons are now white and the bar itself is transparent a few tweaks on the swipe lock screen but nothing special. I know 99% of the changes are under the hood and hopefully these will make my phone the best thing since sliced bread ( what was the best thing before slice bread? ) anyway so far so good! lots of playing to be done

there is a potential battery drain issue where people have a work around of restarting the phone ...before bed(?!) which stops it. Google are working on a nexus fix so we should see it in 2016. :thinking:

Bexy · Mar 11, 2014

No battery drain issue here. Downloaded it last night while my phone was charging. It's been unplugged a bit over 9hrs (admittedly most of that was overnight while sleeping) and it's at 91%. I used it a bit before bed, kept Wifi on overnight and have used it a bit this morning. Looking at the battery info I need to find out why HD Widgets has used the most as I don't have it set up lol.

One thing I did notice though is, the red led light wasnt on when it was charging. I unplugged and restarted the phone but, still no red light, option is still switched on from before the upgrade, even toggled that off and on again. Anyone else have this issue?

jamsterdm · Mar 11, 2014

Same I no longer have a charging notification light.

dynomot · Mar 11, 2014

Odd, the charging, permanently glowing red charging light is on for me. However running a "dream time" option turns it off. Your screen needs to be off totally as well.

Bexy · Mar 12, 2014

Yeah the screen was completely off. What I realised though is when I was charging it, it had gone into the time where I have blocking mode on which disables notifications/led light. It doesn't need charging yet

O) but, I've plugged it in this morning briefly and the light is on now so I think for myself that was the reason why. Never charged it at that time of night before so don't know if it was the same on Jelly Bean.

dynomot · Mar 12, 2014

Bexy said:
Yeah the screen was completely off. What I realised though is when I was charging it, it had gone into the time where I have blocking mode on which disables notifications/led light. It doesn't need charging yet O) but, I've plugged it in this morning briefly and the light is on now so I think for myself that was the reason why. Never charged it at that time of night before so don't know if it was the same on Jelly Bean.

Yes blocking mode for notifications turns it off as well. I have no idea if it was the same on JB either.

bonerp · Mar 12, 2014

Well I'm pretty impressed with 4.4.
Note 3 is notedly quicker, very stable and battery life in day 2 is better then ever. I still have 52% after 11 hours. That's half hour of listening to Mp3, usual texting and Web.
Great job Google. Keep it up.
No problems here :-D

Still no uk kitkat

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