My friend at work has a n7000 the same as me. We got them 1 month apart we are on the same network. His phone is stock only thing he has ever done to it is ota update to ics. I can always squeeze better battery life than him with custom roms/kernals. There sre plenty of good roms and kernals for this device. Maybe you shoud try for yourself you might be suprised
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