Who received the gear for Christmas - Samsung Galaxy Gear

Who received the gear for Christmas. Please share. If you have any questions or just need help. Please post.
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I got my Gear just under 2 weeks ago, free gift with my new contract, so I guess that kind of counts

Just got my gear this morning from the mrs!! I was wondering if I want to root it, should I not update it? Or what should I do
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Jaybenosa said:
Just got my gear this morning from the mrs!! I was wondering if I want to root it, should I not update it? Or what should I do
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Root it. Then use null latest rom.
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freefalling0411 said:
Root it. Then use null latest rom.
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Will do!! Thanks for the quick reply!!!
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Got the gear yesterday, waiting for sdk! great potential for this watch once the sdk is up
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freefalling0411 said:
Who received the gear for Christmas. Please share. If you have any questions or just need help. Please post.
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I got one for Christmas and am kinda disappointed so far. Got it connected but the functionality sucks without all of Samsung's bloatware. Lack of weather no camera uploads no extra apps. Whatnot.
I'm not sure if I want to ROM the watch it give it the full android feel. Plus I love gear managers watch faces.
Is there way I can give the full functionality on 4.4? I'm even willing to download a little bit of bloat.
I just found a ROM that really works for me and it makes me sad to have to lose it.
Please help. I need some direction!

Got one from my wife for Christmas... Haven't really had any time to set it up... Any pointers? (I will read the forums a little later)

Got one from my father for Christmas. Really happy with it so far. Used the camera a lot
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Jokerslie said:
I got one for Christmas and am kinda disappointed so far. Got it connected but the functionality sucks without all of Samsung's bloatware. Lack of weather no camera uploads no extra apps. Whatnot.
I'm not sure if I want to ROM the watch it give it the full android feel. Plus I love gear managers watch faces.
Is there way I can give the full functionality on 4.4? I'm even willing to download a little bit of bloat.
I just found a ROM that really works for me and it makes me sad to have to lose it.
Please help. I need some direction!
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It's not the most advanced watch in the world. But works wonders.
jjenkins2005 said:
Got one from my wife for Christmas... Haven't really had any time to set it up... Any pointers? (I will read the forums a little later)
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Give it time. Once you float around the forum. There is many options for it.
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I'm loving mine, had it 4~5 days. I'm not sure I want to run null. #1, my eyes are too old to make it worthwhile, xda or g+ on that screen...really?
So while I'm not opposed to rooting and I'm amazed with what Fomey has done with null, can you give me a good reason for null? I'm looking for a good reason, lol.
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tkjeeper said:
I'm loving mine, had it 4~5 days. I'm not sure I want to run null. #1, my eyes are too old to make it worthwhile, xda or g+ on that screen...really?
So while I'm not opposed to rooting and I'm amazed with what Fomey has done with null, can you give me a good reason for null? I'm looking for a good reason, lol.
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How about this? I'm also too old to read "fine print" without glasses. But w/Null and Freefalling's theme we've achieved superior battery life and an awesome look!
I use TW instead of Nova but still have Nova installed.
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ebay still has that $200 deal for a refurb
without bluetooth tether (AT&T Note 3), is the null rom still useful?

Still syncs with the phone but no internet
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Psychotic Penguin said:
Still syncs with the phone but no internet
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Call me crazy, but I'm one of those guys who likes tw, I was a long time before flashing a rom to the n3. I rooted fast, but with wanam, I saw no need.
So since I'm able to receive and reply to email, texts, calls, I'm not sure what I'm missing, honestly, I'm looking for an excuse to flash it
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Got it for Xmas from My girlfriend..
Rooted and working with my SG4. Still working to make it stable to last longer. But i have internet and trying all options that i dont make it past thr regular 8-10 Hour... Tomorrow i gonna give it the basic setting to try and get the best juice out it.
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Gear for christmas
My wife gave me mine yesterday.
I am so happy )
Nice watch
rui

tkjeeper said:
Call me crazy, but I'm one of those guys who likes tw, I was a long time before flashing a rom to the n3. I rooted fast, but with wanam, I saw no need.
So since I'm able to receive and reply to email, texts, calls, I'm not sure what I'm missing, honestly, I'm looking for an excuse to flash it
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what do you like about touchwiz? everyone use their gear differently, but i really hated these black and white icons, and you couldn't change how many icons at the same time are displayed.. so if you want to go to voice memos for example, you had to swipe so many pages just to get to that app. i can't stand that. to this day, there is only one custom rom by fomey (bless you). i wouldn't even consider keeping the gear if not the custom ROM. samsung ****ed up big (not the first and not the last time).

As for the face and font colors, I'm sure Samsung will update it with more colors in customization in the future.
Adding more color plates....it is a piece of cake from the technical point of view! :silly:

I got mine a week early and have been loving it since I got it. I think more would get it, if it cost less. It is a very cool and useful watch.

Related

Rom toolbox pro

On sale half off for limited time only this weekend.
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Well worth it.
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Thanks for the info! Been looking into getting this and a sale seals the deal!
I missed the sale, but bought it anyway...it really is worth every penny!
Edit: WOW. That was the dumbest question I've asked in a long time! I'm glad we can edit our posts
Must have app for all rooted users. Have had it a long time and worth every cent, on sale or not.
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smokedkill said:
Must have app for all rooted users. Have had it a long time and worth every cent, on sale or not.
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+1
Quick question: Does the Theme Manager/Statusbar Icons only work with CyanogenMod?
I have not tried the theme manager but the status bar stuff works. Make sure you back up though. I didn't and got stuck with battery icon sets that appear to be incomplete. At certain percentages I will see the original icons so it is a little mismatched. Ymmv.
I always back up before doing anything haha...well, none of it works on my phone and that's why I think it only works with CyanogenMod.

[DISCUSSION][ROM]Stock Rooted Deodexed/Odexed MDC

This is the place for all things that are related to my stock rom.
Woah!
And it starts.
Is this the updated firmware package that they say is rolling out or the original? Either way...awesome...thank you!!!
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Is this the updated firmware package that they say is rolling out or the original? Either way...awesome...thank you!!!
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Original. MDC is what came on our devices. I agree, either way. This is great!
Tahde said:
Original. MDC is what came on our devices. I agree, either way. This is great!
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Awesome...thanks for the info!
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All versions are posted now.
Thanks and wow Roms are huge on this phone!
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mjs2011 said:
Thanks and wow Roms are huge on this phone!
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Yeah they are. Almost makes me wish I had waited for 32GB. Almost
crawrj said:
Yeah they are. Almost makes me wish I had waited for 32GB. Almost
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Yeah. If anything, I'll make it a habit of downloading to my PC and then copying it over.
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Very nice work here C!:good:
Already busting them out....trying to get me to work already
Awesome job as always :thumbup::thumbup:
Just imagine how big the rom will be in a couple of years from now...lol
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Shadow_God said:
Already busting them out....trying to get me to work already
Awesome job as always :thumbup::thumbup:
Just imagine how big the rom will be in a couple of years from now...lol
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LOL. I was just thinking to myself. Self, you need to get your ass in gear so you can put Shadow to work. Self listened for once :silly:
I was thinking the same thing about the rom sizes. Going to get crazy.
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LOL. I was just thinking to myself. Self, you need to get your ass in gear so you can put Shadow to work. Self listened for once :silly:
I was thinking the same thing about the rom sizes. Going to get crazy.
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I knew once I saw you here my break was over we are missing the mod king...lol....
Yea the phone smallest size will have to be 64gb...lol
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Can someone refresh me on the odexed vs. deodexed differences?
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Can someone refresh me on the odexed vs. deodexed differences?
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Odexed is pure stock. More difficult to mod unless the dev puts out both versions. It is supposedly faster also. Never could tell a difference in speed. But I like to stay close to stock so I always run odexed and odex all of my work. Deodexed is good for modding and theming since you only have to do things once. It is also a little smaller in size. Again supposedly a little slower, like starting apps. Also more difficult to get things working right at times. Like Google Wallet working on my Odexed Rom but not on Deodexed.
I am sure if you Google them you will find much better answers than what I have provided.
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Here is a battery saving app just for snapdragon
Its still in beta but its pretty good so far
Snapdragon battery guru (beta)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
It learns as you go
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Shadow_God said:
Here is a battery saving app just for snapdragon
Its still in beta but its pretty good so far
Snapdragon battery guru (beta)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
It learns as you go
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Interesting. I never liked DS much because it always messed with my data connection after waking up the screen but this looks really interactive and intelligent!
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mjs2011 said:
Interesting. I never liked DS much because it always messed with my data connection after waking up the screen but this looks really interactive and intelligent!
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It takes 3 days for it to learn your behavior. ..then after the 3 days learning mode it will work on battery saving
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Shadow_God said:
Here is a battery saving app just for snapdragon
Its still in beta but its pretty good so far
Snapdragon battery guru (beta)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
It learns as you go
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This bloody thing didn't save anything really, just annoyed me by turning off things i set to autosync and etc. Used to use it on my S3 when it first leaked months ago and broomed it fast when i noticed i wasn't receiving emails and such anymore. Apparently it turns off what it "thinks" is not necessary, like email accounts i set to check every hour. After a few days of no email, which i found weird, i went into my email settings and this silly app had turned off sync and set it to manual amongst other annoyances. I never really noticed any battery savings anyway.
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This bloody thing didn't save anything really, just annoyed me by turning off things i set to autosync and etc. Used to use it on my S3 when it first leaked months ago and broomed it fast when i noticed i wasn't receiving emails and such anymore. Apparently it turns off what it "thinks" is not necessary, like email accounts i set to check every hour. After a few days of no email, which i found weird, i went into my email settings and this silly app had turned off sync and set it to manual amongst other annoyances. I never really noticed any battery savings anyway.
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I havent had that problem yet....just have to see.....it will react differently to every phone...some will have success with it and some won't....just have to find what will work best with your phone and your set up.....
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Galaxy gear...to get or not

Is it worth it? Would be nice at work if I didn't have to pull my note 3 out every time I get a text or email....I receive 50-100 texts a day. Any info would be excellent....thx in advance
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$225 at tmo is not a bad price
Do you have to be a t mobile subscriber to get that price?
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No, you don't have to subscribe
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Is it worth it? Would be nice at work if I didn't have to pull my note 3 out every time I get a text or email....I receive 50-100 texts a day. Any info would be excellent....thx in advance
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With great respect only you can answer that. The online operating manual is now available for the Sony site. I would suggest you go read it and see if it will perform what you expect of a smart watch or not. Ones mans trash is another mans gold etc..........
Regards.
Thanks...you are correct about what "I" expect from the device. As long as it sends all my texts and emails I'll be good. I work in a dirty factory and hate pulling out my phone
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TopDogg1 said:
Thanks...you are correct about what "I" expect from the device. As long as it sends all my texts and emails I'll be good. I work in a dirty factory and hate pulling out my phone
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i been replying to all my text from it. it works pretty good
Cool....tmobile is outta the black one now.....crap
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i been replying to all my text from it. it works pretty good
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Can you user a voice to reply
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cherylbaker said:
Can you user a voice to reply
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yes
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yes
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I have it and its ok you can see the text but you cant answer text and you cant respond to text like other smart watches i might return it after a week, theres not many apps either im kinda disappointed
You can reply to anything using s-voice no on-board keyboard. Loving this thing so far and the phone is a big improvement over the note2 (and I loved that phone too).
Absolutely room for improvement and not many apps.. yet. Patience people.
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staffn said:
You can reply to anything using s-voice no on-board keyboard. Loving this thing so far and the phone is a big improvement over the note2 (and I loved that phone too).
Absolutely room for improvement and not many apps.. yet. Patience people.
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no i love the note 3 best phone ever but it seems like theres something missing on the galaxy gear it has the potiential but the software lacks and it needs play store access the samsung store sucks
loads of potential its early days , you will be buying it back in a month
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stesteste said:
loads of potential its early days , you will be buying it back in a month
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Still waiting 4 stocks here in saudi would like to see demo units
The SMS and Email notifications work great on Gear.
Gmail and Facebook notifications need to work like the above two to be useful and they aren't yet.
Gear seriously needs a calculator app, including a tip calculation function. It's mind boggling that they didn't include one already.
It would also be nice to have a compass function but not sure whether it can support that or not.
can you share a picture taken from great and upload straight to Facebook
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stesteste said:
can you share a picture taken from great and upload straight to Facebook
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Not from the Gear directly, but you can quite easily transfer to the smartphone and then, share from the phone.
ArborRes said:
Not from the Gear directly, but you can quite easily transfer to the smartphone and then, share from the phone.
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Really . I thought it was suppose to have a fb app..
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ArborRes said:
Not from the Gear directly, but you can quite easily transfer to the smartphone and then, share from the phone.
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its growing on me but it needs playstore access its so good but its bad. the speaker phone is unbelievable the viewing of text is great and this is the best s voice i ever used and i hate s voice, but the bad is the apps the apps is horrible. it needs three things 1. the ability to answer a text with a built in keyboard. 2. Play store access. 3. micro sd slot. If I could get 1 and 2 Ill be happy other than that Im probably going to return it based on google announcement on oct 31

Coming here to see what this note 3 is about :)

For the ones who know me, I had a note 1 and note 2 for AT&T. I've done my little share or Rom development and theming apps...
So anyone who knows me..what's up guys....Looks like we need alot of work here I take it?
Hey. I remember you in the 2 forums. Yeah it's dead over here but there's a thread in general that kinda let's us flash roms. Someone just verified it working and starting to dig deeper into it to maybe get us some roms made up. Check the thread out.
And if you are running mi9 then root with dlv and disable your update cause once you are on mj5 you can't go back as it stands right now. It will auto update if you wait to long
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wish777 said:
For the ones who know me, I had a note 1 and note 2 for AT&T. I've done my little share or Rom development and theming apps...
So anyone who knows me..what's up guys....Looks like we need alot of work here I take it?
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It's funny that you mention it, just today we discovered that it is possible to flash custom ROMs. If you're on MJ5 and something goes wrong, you won't be able to un-brick your device. However if you're running an earlier firmware you can use Odin to re-flash stock. Can't wait to wipe this TouchJizz off the face of the earth, just waiting for that MJ5 Odin. :good:
Wish!
Good to see ya around here...Ya, I'm patiently waiting for this thing to take off. This is just upsetting that we have to deal with this nonsense with the locked bootloaders
Hope you make the jump wish....your a helpful guy
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Agreed this is like a veterans thread
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I remember alot of you guys...That's great..The forums are so much better with vets that are technically inclined, and have alot in common...
roughneckboren said:
And if you are running mi9 then root with dlv and disable your update cause once you are on mj5 you can't go back as it stands right now. It will auto update if you wait to long
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Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
wish777 said:
Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
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Damn it....mine did the same thing, it updated while i was driving home from best buy....lol
Once your on Mj5 as of right now the most you can do is Root and theme. im Hoping we can get a Odin Package for MJ5 soon so we dont have to worry about bricks and we can start testing more things with out worrying about not being able to recover.
true..root ,theme and debloat ....You would think.after debloating this rom. And using sd read/write values that would increase a decent amount for such a early development.
Is phone sure loves to use alot of stock ram for some reason..
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Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
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I tired everything to get it to not update and as soon as I put my battery back in it was updating. Yours seemed to update a lot faster than mine did. It was like two days. I just got mine the other day
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Hey I remember you from my old note 2.
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wish777 said:
Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
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Bring it back and exchange you're within your 14 days.
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Yeah u don't want to play with a phone that has no Odin for it
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We will have Odin soon enough. For now root, Debloat, and xposed is good enough for me. My 2 biggest gripes were the green eqs tabs, and the green battery. I themed to match the blue tw jelly bean theme, and removed the battery icon. Looks much better. Also did some other things with xposed. Very happy for now.
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I've been patiently waiting as my phone updated to mj5 also so I'm stuck with stock for now, I don't want to start modding without a way to recover. Good to see you here Wish777 hopefully we see the ball rolling soon with this beast.
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roloracer said:
I've been patiently waiting as my phone updated to mj5 also so I'm stuck with stock for now, I don't want to start modding without a way to recover. Good to see you here Wish777 hopefully we see the ball rolling soon with this beast.
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Hey racer...Yeah I'm staying stock for just a bit longer to better understand the this device..good to see ya here as well.
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Hey racer...Yeah I'm staying stock for just a bit longer to better understand the this device..good to see ya here as well.
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Yeah I hear you, I want to see custom recovery before I go all out on this, definitely need nandroid as a safety net. Luckily this phone is badass stock so I'm pretty content at the moment.
RoloRacer on Note 3 N900A
Hello all.
Im new to the note 3... but not to xda. I dont post much at all. However I do have a rooted skyrocket and give all credit to Vincom. I still read through his threads regularly. I got the s2 when it was the flagship and now ive upped the grade to the next one. I think its wrong of the manufacturer and carrier to charge us a boatload for this device and chain it to the dock so to speak. It seems there is some experience in this thread so I will be checking in often. I also had the mj5 update sneek in before I knew what happened and it does seem that we are all leary of the dread 600$ brick. Thanks to all who dare. You are my hero (s).
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I'm on Mj5 and I rooted with Kingo...
I cant post links to it per xda rules but if you google it you'll find it...I haven't had any issues .
You can use "wanan" app and "exposed framework" app to theme and some decent mods.

Open mic+

Anyone try this on the gear?
Pretty neat. I installed it on my s4 n when it responses, I can use the gears' mic to command.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.OpenMic.Pheonix
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Battery drain might be crazy
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battery life will be an issue.
and personally i prefer to touch the right icon in order to do something. i don't like talking to my watch.
Good to know, at least the option is there for whoever needs it.
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I had this on the Gear for the few days that I ran the null rom and it was pretty cool. You could just say something and the watch would pick it up even with the screen off.
That said, I wasn't a big fan of trying to do much work on the watch rather than the big Note 3 so I went back to stock.

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