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• Jul 13, 2014

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My Nexus 5 screen is cracked and I found a Note 3 for the same price of a new Nexus 5. I don't like TouchWiz and was wondering if I can put vanilla Android on it. If so, what are the disadvantages? Would I get updates just like the Nexus 5?

 

willham

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• Jul 13, 2014

• #2

Root and flash an aosp Rom like slim or cm11. the only disadvantages to this is you trip Knox and nfc does not work. You won't get updates like the nexus line but when the developers put out an update you can just flash the new update.

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• Jul 13, 2014

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willham said:

Root and flash an aosp Rom like slim or cm11. the only disadvantages to this is you trip Knox and nfc does not work. You won't get updates like the nexus line but when the developers put out an update you can just flash the new update.

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I could have sworn Knox was tripped on my wife's Note 3, but then I installed Xposed and it fixed it and she was able to update.

What features would I be missing? Would the camera still be just as good? I know there's an s-pen app out, so I could still use that.


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• Jul 14, 2014

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Anyone else? Should I just get the Nexus 5 again?


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krelvinaz

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• Jul 14, 2014

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Xposed will not fix the Knox flag.

 

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• Jul 14, 2014

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Well, you would lose all the TouchWiz features. I don't know about the camera quality since I haven't used it but I haven't seen people complaining.

 

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• Jul 14, 2014

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krelvinaz said:

Xposed will not fix the Knox flag.

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Okay, well I followed a tutorial and my wife's phone is rotor and Knox isn't tripped so she's able to download updates OTA.

Techniques said:

Well, you would lose all the TouchWiz features. I don't know about the camera quality since I haven't used it but I haven't seen people complaining.

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Okay, I'm just debating what to do now. I like the size of the Note 3, but I also love the Nexus 5.


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krelvinaz

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• Jul 14, 2014

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dinggus said:

Okay, well I followed a tutorial and my wife's phone is rotor and Knox isn't tripped so she's able to download updates OTA.

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If it is rooted, why would you want to get an OTA? That won't really work or will end up unrooting the phone.

 

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• Jul 14, 2014

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krelvinaz said:

If it is rooted, why would you want to get an OTA? That won't really work or will end up unrooting the phone.

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Good question, I just know I was able to do an OTA update and SuperUser is still installed along with other apps that require rooting.

Are you running stock android on the Note 3?

 

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mike102871

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• Jul 14, 2014

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Please tell everyone how you reset knox and prove it. Youll be a genius.

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• Jul 15, 2014

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mike102871 said:

Please tell everyone how you reset knox and prove it. Youll be a genius.

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Just checked with Root Checker and it's not rooted anymore. But still has SU installed and a few other apps.

 

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mike102871

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• Jul 15, 2014

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So you never reset knox as you previously stated.

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