Galaxy Note 3

My Note 3 is simply spectacular in all areas of performance. Truly.

I'd be thrilled if Apple would get serious and build something like it. When you're a serious Apple enthusiast, it is terribly disappointing that they haven't. Especially since I know they can.
 
Standard feature of TW as far as I know.

Pull down the notification bar, tick the auto box, but move the slider to the right to increase the "+" value.
 
we don't have this "auto +x" option in the AT&T version...

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autumn said:
What app do you use that can customize the auto brightness like this?
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it comes with the phones here I think..where in US it appears to be just auto brightness with no level changer.

I've set mine to +5 too today...normally had it at +3 and have found no real difference battery life wise...like a bright screen.
 
The Game 161 said:
I wonder if +5 is the same brightness as those in us with the normal auto brightness option?
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Yeah - it would be interesting to see.

There is so many little variations within roms.

My Note 3 samsung keyboard for example is darker blue/grey, whereas I've seen others with a lighter grey keyboard.
 

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soulreaver99 said:
Now that you are able to store Google Play music files to an SD Card (officially), it makes owning a Note 3 EVEN BETTER!!!

http://bit.ly/IuFCmg
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Well considering that the biggest selling android devices by a massive margin are the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series phones, it makes prefect sense for Google to support external storage. Kudos to Google.
 
MacRumorUser said:
Yeah - it would be interesting to see.

There is so many little variations within roms.

My Note 3 samsung keyboard for example is darker blue/grey, whereas I've seen others with a lighter grey keyboard.
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Yeah, mine is light grey as well

I've also noticed that the Verizon Note settings menu looks a bit different as well. I believe the international variant is split into tabs like my Sprint Galaxy S4 was but there are no tabs on the Verizon Note. It's just one huge scroll down list.
 

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soulreaver99 said:
Now that you are able to store Google Play music files to an SD Card (officially), it makes owning a Note 3 EVEN BETTER!!!

http://bit.ly/IuFCmg
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In the Play store store it says SD card support for offline music on KitKat. Can anyone confirm that it works on the Note 3?

Edit - nevermind, in settings you can choose between internal or external under storage location ..... sweeeeet.
 
Dontazemebro said:
Yeah, mine is light grey as well

I've also noticed that the Verizon Note settings menu looks a bit different as well. I believe the international variant is split into tabs like my Sprint Galaxy S4 was but there are no tabs on the Verizon Note. It's just one huge scroll down list.
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Menu button > Switch to tab view
 
My keyboard was light grey when I first got the phone, but a recent update gave it a lick of paint and made it dark grey.
 
Dontazemebro said:
In the Play store store it says SD card support for offline music on KitKat. Can anyone confirm that it works on the Note 3?

Edit - nevermind, in settings you can choose between internal or external under storage location ..... sweeeeet.
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It's AWESOME! Works on the Xperia Z1 as well. In case people want a visual:
 

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MacRumorUser said:
It's on all international handsets normally by default. Sadly AT&T remove the option from their native rom.
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I have to wonder why they'd remove something like that! This is one of the reasons I always buy my devices sim free with no carrier crap on them -

I remember years ago when I bought a subsidised Windows Mobile phone from Orange in the UK: They removed MSN messenger in an attempt to force people into using SMS (which they made money from) rather than Messenger (which they didn't). That was the last time I bought a phone that a carrier had their grubby hands on and I will never buy another. I'm in the UK so we also get real benefits (i.e. cheaper plans) from having a SIM only contract :)
 
Phil A. said:
I have to wonder why they'd remove something like that! This is one of the reasons I always buy my devices sim free with no carrier crap on them -

I remember years ago when I bought a subsidised Windows Mobile phone from Orange in the UK: They removed MSN messenger in an attempt to force people into using SMS (which they made money from) rather than Messenger (which they didn't). That was the last time I bought a phone that a carrier had their grubby hands on and I will never buy another. I'm in the UK so we also get real benefits (i.e. cheaper plans) from having a SIM only contract :)
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also for me i'm on a sim only deal too so i bought the note 3 and have a sim only contract where i pay only £16 a month and get

3,000 calls
5,000 texts
all you can eat data
 
Galaxy Note 3

WilliamBateman said:
I just did this last month and Im also on Verizon. I'll save you a lot of time. The only thing the 5s wins at is the radio. I seemed to get LTE in places the Note 3 would not or would get randomly, and a slight edge in the camera department. Thats it. Sold my 5s and kept the Note 3.
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Yes, I can finally confirm this. I'm sitting in a dead spot right now and I'm getting 2 bars of 1x on the Note while I have 3 bars of 3G on the iPhone 5s

The 5s definitely wins in radio performance.

Edit - cycled airplane mode on both, the 5s is sitting comfortably on 3 bars of 3G while the Note is fluctuating between 1 & 3 bars of 3G.
 
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Dontazemebro said:
Yes, I can finally confirm this. I'm sitting in a dead spot right now and I'm getting 2 bars of 1x on the Note while I have 3 bars of 3G on the iPhone 5s

The 5s definitely wins in radio performance.

Edit - cycled airplane mode on both, the 5s is sitting comfortably on 3 bars of 3G while the Note is fluctuating between 1 & 3 bars of 3G.
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That is not necessarily representative of actual signal strength though. 1 bar on the Note 3 might not be equal to 1 bar on the iPhone...
 
SlCKB0Y said:
That is not necessarily representative of actual signal strength though. 1 bar on the Note 3 might not be equal to 1 bar on the iPhone...
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You might be right but the Note does fluctuate more sporadically whereas the 5s seems to have a bit more stability. For some reason I've always found android devices to have weaker radios than the iPhone. HTC was one of the worst culprits.
 
Now I don't know what to think. Moved over to another location today (up a mountain) and I'm getting at least 2 bars of LTE on the Note 3 and only 3 bars of 1x on the iPhone 5s. This is confusing lol
 
SlCKB0Y said:
That is not necessarily representative of actual signal strength though. 1 bar on the Note 3 might not be equal to 1 bar on the iPhone...
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Yep. The correct way would be to compare the signal strength in dBm.

Settings - > More - > About device - > Status->Signal Strength
 
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