So Basically - If stock 4.3 this phone is garbage?

[BlakeDC]

So I used to have my phone unlocked. I figured the stock 4.3 OTA would be a good idea so I flashed it back to stock via Odin because I am prepared to get a new phone. So with that said...


If you have 4.3 Stock, is the only thing you can do now to just sit miserably with a crappy phone that:
1) Has to remain on 4.3 TouchWiz Roms via a beta safestrap program that appears the developer has stopped developing for
2) Can accept the 4.4 OTA (when it comes) update but then lose root indefinitely so no more free tether etc

Because I really miss being able to do what I wanted with my device I paid hundreds of dollars for....

I swear there's got to be some kind of way to sue to get access to my device I own....

 

[ProjectAlly]

Pretty much. There are Roms to flash but not many it seems. TouchWiz really sucks. Locked bootloader sucks. Kind of really regretting the upgrade to the Note 2 to be honest. Should have done research before buying the phone and updating to 4.3 JB.

At the moment though I'm running SRemix v4 and it's pretty cool. Basically all stock with Wifi Tether hack built in. Good stuff.

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[viper31573]

i dont get your complaint. you said you were getting a new phone. you clearly do not like TW. so since you are buying a new phone anyways, buy one that you like. IMO the note 2 is the best phone ive ever owned. its your own fault that you unrooted and took OTA. I was warning people before 4.3 was even released that they should root and unlock then if they wanted to. we knew with the release of the S4 that rooting and unlocking bootloader was going to be unlikely moving fwd

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not to mention there was a rooted 4.3 TW rom before you took the OTA

 

[BlakeDC]

Thanks for your quality response

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[pool_shark]

I have no problem with touch wiz.
As much as I like custom ROMs I could live with a locked bootloader as long as I had root.
I like busybox for Unix commands and I like xposed mods for theming and such. So I would have to have root but could live with a locked bootloader.

 

[BlakeDC]

I have no problem with touch wiz.
As much as I like custom ROMs I could live with a locked bootloader as long as I had root.
I like busybox for Unix commands and I like xposed mods for theming and such. So I would have to have root but could live with a locked bootloader.

Yeah I've no use for the unlocked bootloader per say, but I want 4.4.X and root, which apparently anything post 4.3 locked bootloader, will have a jacked up no-root system because they will need a 3 part root (Rom, Recovery and Kernel). Just ruins the 4.4.X update that will be stock locked bootloader. Might as well throw this thing away hah.

I need root. I can't live without that.

 

[KennyG123]

So I used to have my phone unlocked. I figured the stock 4.3 OTA would be a good idea so I flashed it back to stock via Odin because I am prepared to get a new phone. So with that said...


If you have 4.3 Stock, is the only thing you can do now to just sit miserably with a crappy phone that:
1) Has to remain on 4.3 TouchWiz Roms via a beta safestrap program that appears the developer has stopped developing for
2) Can accept the 4.4 OTA (when it comes) update but then lose root indefinitely so no more free tether etc

Because I really miss being able to do what I wanted with my device I paid hundreds of dollars for....

I swear there's got to be some kind of way to sue to get access to my device I own....

I guess you didn't see this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107738

Never accept OTA's without research if you value being unlocked and with root.
As this thread is spiraling downhill quickly with some name calling which I removed
Thread closed