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Dale1999

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New here, and fairly new to the Android system as I just got this phone in January.

I have the Note 4, last night ATT update my OS to what google search seems to tell me as the Lollipop update. Well I despise this update.

So #1 Any way to remove this update, and go back?
If no #2, can I do a hard reset and go back to the os my phone came with? ATT rep says no, but then he looked at me like I was an idiot for wanting to remove it.

If no to 1&2.
3A. How do I go about changing these god awful colors? I'm not a kid, or a girl, I like the blue colors it had before.
3B, how do I make it go to "last app open" when I swipe my phone from snooze like it did before. It automatically goes the "phone keypad".
3c, when phone is in snooze and you hit the home screen, it shows time and weather. I had the weather "disabled" before (it showed, just never updated). How do I go back to this, or even fully remove weather and just leave time/date.
3d, somewhere I cant find now. I kept having a crescent thing popping up on the bottom. How to remove it.

I may have more, but this is what I have found changed so far. :spitoutdroid:

Thank You!
 
That AT&T Rep was right. You don't go back. Well, not easily, anyway.

In order to return to 4.4.x (which is what I am going to assume you were using) you will have to root your device and void your warranty. You then assume the risk to not turn a $600 phone into a paperweight (or brick, as the folks like to say). Then you must find the right factory firmware for your specific model. That's VERY important as even a small deviation can render your phone useless (see previous sentence). After that you have to have the technical knowledge to use several utilities to flash the old firmware from a PC which can communicate with the phone in download mode.

Finally, once that's all done and you get your phone setup again ... you'll keep getting notified about the update. One wrong tap and you'll be back to lollipop all over again.

Some people really don't like the way they implemented material design. I get that. I haven't seen Samsung's take on it in TouchWiz, but you can change a lot of it with a different theme or launcher. The apps themselves may or may not be able to be changed, we'll have to address that on a per-app basis.
 
TouchWiz is Samsung's launcher. That's what makes Samsung's phones different than say Motorola, LG or HTC devices. It also provides a lot of unique features that some people like, while others consider it bloat. You'll have to decide for yourself.

I have a Note 10.1 (2014) and a Galaxy Tab 4 both with TouchWiz, but still running 4.4.2 so I am not sure how the Lollipop version of TouchWiz differs.

how do I make it go to "last app open" when I swipe my phone from snooze like it did before. It automatically goes the "phone keypad".

3c, when phone is in snooze and you hit the home screen, it shows time and weather. I had the weather "disabled" before (it showed, just never updated). How do I go back to this, or even fully remove weather and just leave time/date.
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In lollipop, when you swipe up diagonally to the right from the lower left, you open the dialer. Swipe up diagonally from the lower right to the upper left and you open the camera. Straight up from the center it's Google Now. That's the way Google does the lock screen. Not sure if Samsung followed suit or added to it. The widgets are part of the lock screen too. If you go to menu>settings>device tab>lock screen you might see some additional options.
 
I don't see touchwiz in my apps section. I am guessing I am reading your info wrong that its not an app I can go in and change settings?

This swiping crap, I never had this issue before, no matter how I swiped, it opened to last app.
 
TouchWiz isn't an app and you simply can't uninstall it. It's cooked into Samsung phones. The only way to get rid of it is to root and install a custom rom. I don't think you want to do that.

What you can do is install a launcher like Nova or Apex (there are many others, but those two are probably the most popular) that will change the way your home screens and app drawer looks (and in some instances, works). You can also theme the launcher so it will change icons, wallpapers, menu colors, etc. You have to experiment to find out which suits you.

The swiping from the corners is a lollipop thing. If you swipe staight up from the center it should simply unlock. If you had an app open, it should be there. If that's not happening, then it's something Samsung did with the lock screen. It might be best to ask in the Note 4 forums.
 
A good thing with Nova is that you can "import' your current launcher setup saving a lot of time /hasstle :thumbsupdroid:
Plus it's mega fast with a lot of customisations. (there's a free version but I recommend the payed "prime' version)
 
So I just tried the Nova free (didn't want to pay unless I know it would do what I want). It doesn't appear at least in the free one to change colors of the.... headers? With default os, I did find how to change colors of the text box, background in the texting app. Looks better, but still has the hideous orange header. smh. You would think with millions of users, and easily 256 colors, nobody would want the same color(s) and would give users options to pick n choose.

I found the crescent thing again. Its when you get to the bottom of a page, it pops up I guess to let you know your at the end. Like it not scrolling anymore isn't enough?

After bragging for 3months how much better this phone is over my old icraps, I finally found some down sides.

Thanks to the users who have helped me get the two fixed and to try and app to attempt to fix another.
 
Nova only allows you to change the interface of the home and lockscreens. It cannot touch the insides of apps. The text messaging app built into Samsung is part of TouchWiz, and thus cannot be touched by Nova to change colors and themes. You can use a third party SMS app like EvolveSMS, Textra or ChompSMS and change the theme. You'd have to turn off the notifications for the other messaging app. However, using a third party app loses you some features, like the lockscreen notification. You'd have to use another app to get your new SMS app to have that.

Basically, the point here is that if there's anything you don't like on your phone, there's an app in the playstore that does it how you want it, more likely than not.
 
So I would have to do several different apps working together to get rid of this hideous color header?

The phone also forced a facebook update last night, even though I have the phone checked to not update any apps. I just rechecked that and verified that didn't get reset like many of my other settings.

It also now creates a constant "warning" if you restrict background data which it didn't do before.
 
Guess you could root the phone, put a custom rom on and theme everything to your liking? (or return to iPhone).
 
Probably the same way some people felt after iPhone changed their interface with iOS7. I know some friends who switched to Android because of it. So basically your choices here are:

1.) Get replacement apps.
2.) Root the phone and get a custom ROM. You can theme the colors on a custom ROM to almost anything. Catch is you void warranty.
3.) Go back to iPhone.

At this point, it's your call. We can try to help you with the other two, but getting an iPhone might mean you'd have to ask your questions at a different forum. I admit to not knowing much about the latest iOS and it's quirks.
 
You may have got the FB update as part of the system update if it comes pre-installed.

My daughter has an iPhone that she won't update to iOS 7 because she dislikes that, so I know how you feel.

If you roll it back to Kitkat can't you untick the box to be notified of updates? I can on my HTC. Or with a custom ROM you shouldn't be notified of them anyway.
 
funky.. No I wont go back to iphone as it doesn't even do what I need.
chanchan.. option 4, live with it and hope the next update is better which is likely what I'm going to do.
Hadron.. I did the same thing with my icrap. I wouldn't do the update because I didn't like it. Had I known this was actually a os update, I would have waited tell someone else did, or went and google searched about it. Of course most people are happy about it, and nobody mentions the issues I have with it, or that I could find.
 
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