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4.3 update

That I would like to know as well as that might be the deciding factor to when&if I will upgrade to the Note3, not due an upgrade for another month or two anyway so hopefully the update is out before then
 
Not sure what all it will have, but my phone just notified me that I have an update. I'm going to wait until I get home ot run it, but I'm crossing my fingers that it's 4.3 :dontknow:

EDIT: Nope. Apparently it was 165 megs of useless At&t stuff. I can't tell any difference afterward.
 
I'd assume some stability fixes. The browser hanging/crashing has been reported by a few, the screen rotation issue as well.
 
Rtlsnksteve said:
Not sure what all it will have, but my phone just notified me that I have an update. I'm going to wait until I get home ot run it, but I'm crossing my fingers that it's 4.3 :dontknow:

EDIT: Nope. Apparently it was 165 megs of useless At&t stuff. I can't tell any difference afterward.
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I got that one as well, and not sure what it was. :p I did notice that I didn't have the screen rotation problem since the update. Maybe they fixed it, or I just have good luck for 2 days.... we will see.

You know that it would not be 4.3 because even Samsung has not released 4.3 for Note II. AT&T would be months behind Samsung if ever. AT&T has 0 incentive to roll out an update for older models. They want you to switch to AT&T Next to change your phone every year to a new model!
 
heat57 said:
It's confusing but seems to be hot air for the most part. This article explains the issue in detail and there is no region lock if activated with a SIM card from the region the device was purchased in - Galaxy Note 3 SIM card region locking
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Not exactly hot air. A lot of people in US buy international version of the phone (new) from outside US. It would be bad if they insert an AT&T sim into the new phone and now it is locked to US region and cannot be used when they travel to other countries!
 
lcneed said:
Not exactly hot air. A lot of people in US buy international version of the phone (new) from outside US. It would be bad if they insert an AT&T sim into the new phone and now it is locked to US region and cannot be used when they travel to other countries!
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I think they are claiming it won't work if you buy a EU or Asian phone and try to activate it first in the US. So it's your AT&T card won't work, not the other way around.
 
I got the update today too. After the install completed I checked and I'm still on 4.1.2.

BTW, my rotation issue was fixed by the previous update.
 
nsa_sailor said:
I think they are claiming it won't work if you buy a EU or Asian phone and try to activate it first in the US. So it's your AT&T card won't work, not the other way around.
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Ah yes I read it wrong. But still it means you can't buy unlock phone oversea without going thru Samsung Service center to unlock the phone.
That just not cool.
 
lcneed said:
Ah yes I read it wrong. But still it means you can't buy unlock phone oversea without going thru Samsung Service center to unlock the phone.
That just not cool.
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No, that's not what is being said. If you buy your phone from the EU, for example, and then activate it with a US operators SIM then the phone will be SIM locked to the US operator, i.e. you can't use any other SIM from outside the US, unless you get it unlocked by a Samsung service centre.

Conversely, if you by an EU region locked phone and activate it with an EU SIM the first time round then any SIM from any region should work. At leat that's my understanding.
 
heat57 said:
No, that's not what is being said. If you buy your phone from the EU, for example, and then activate it with a US operators SIM then the phone will be SIM locked to the US operator, i.e. you can't use any other SIM from outside the US, unless you get it unlocked by a Samsung service centre.

Conversely, if you by an EU region locked phone and activate it with an EU SIM the first time round then any SIM from any region should work. At leat that's my understanding.
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That's the way it's suppose to be according to Samsung, but unfortunately they either lied or there are bugs in the software. Developers at xda dug a little deeper and discovered there's a blacklist of country codes about 40 countries long that even if you activate the device in the intended region first, it won't work in those blacklisted countries.
 
heat57 said:
No, that's not what is being said. If you buy your phone from the EU, for example, and then activate it with a US operators SIM then the phone will be SIM locked to the US operator, i.e. you can't use any other SIM from outside the US, unless you get it unlocked by a Samsung service centre.

Conversely, if you by an EU region locked phone and activate it with an EU SIM the first time round then any SIM from any region should work. At leat that's my understanding.
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That's what I originally thought then. People in US buy unlocked phone from Europe or Asia and activated in US with AT&T or Tmobile. After that, they would want to take it outside of the country when traveling to use their local SIMs... it is very common. Any kind of region locking is really bad.
 
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