I'm going to be obtaining a rare colourway in one of these two Notes. It'll be replacing my main phone.

Would you recommend to go for the Note 3 or Note 4? I know usually people would say go for the newest, but I'm wondering if there's any feature/issue that exists on one that doesn't on the other or anything. Which would you recommend me and why?

I found a few good condition listings on Ebay, Ebay Germany, and Ebay UK but the sellers don't respond when I ask if it's possible to ship to the US or in the case of this one particular seller from Slovenia I asked him yesterday if it was possible for him to ship with FedEx Express and he said he'll look into it and have an answer for me today but then when I messaged him asking if it's possible today he ghosted me.

So I downloaded my note 3 (hlte) to android 4.3, now I wanted to dualboot this to android 13 buy the app gives me multiple errors. I first followed a guide on xda which said to update the ramdisk of the stock rom, "failed to update ramdisk", then I tried to install a patched zip buy it said : rom is for hlte,etc not for ".", can someone help? (BTW iam rooted and gave the app root access)

I cannot find out how to root this! I have tried literally every method, and none of them work. I'm on the OF1 firmware, on Lolipop 5.0.

The Note 3 was having trouble with signing into my main google account. So I went ahead and reset it. But the error has not gone away. Still cannot sign into my google account. Right working only with my samsung account. But I need the google account for playstore.
Any tips or suggestions?

thanks

Hello all! Does anyone have tips on booting some old note3 (SM-N9505) without a battery? I found it with a bloated one and threw the battery away.

Two years ago, phone was worked fine. One day, I searched something on google and then phone freezed.

When i restarted, phone shut down itself at restarting process for no reason. It restarts over and over till phone becomes hot like a flame.

I tried wipe everyting many times, installed custom ROM but still nothing

Only fix is underclock phone too much. (If i have chance to open phone and underclock with kernel adiutor app)

I've received a used Note 3 from a friend and i performed a factory reset on it and i went through the set up pages but Google account is giving me an issue. when i reach the login page for the google account for the play store etc. I login and it brings me to the add a phone number page. i click yes im in but nothing happens the page stays stuck and the options dont do anything its like unresponsive?

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anyone else have this issue?

Can’t find any good firmware for this phone

Hello everyone... I'm trying to get my phone working as to not lose anything that's on it. When I turn it on it just sticks on the Samsung screen with a blue led it says like that till the battery drains getting hot. I tried using vol up hime and power and I get reboot system now and other options. I've rebooted and it dosen't change anything. I've wiped cache partition and still nothing... is there anything else I can do ? I don't want to wipe data/factory reset because I have pictures that would be heart breaking to lose. If anyone has any insight or suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it.

As the title says, can someone please send me the stock Lollipop files (all 4 seperate ones)? Or send me a link (except sammobile ones) to download these files?

The files on sammobile are only available to premium users, and I am not.

thanks

I used SuperSU unroot to unroot, but did not uninstall supersu and rebooted. Now the note is stuck on the att logo screen.

Please help.

I have tried Odin, Fail everytime.Then tried adb, did not succeed.

What else can I do?

PS: Regained the phone :). Had to use an older version of odin, and the seperate AP, BL etc files, not one file, which I was doing.

As the title says I'm having power issues on the phone. The issues are:

1. Phone powers on by itself without pressing any buttons while shutting the phone down.
2. Phone powers on by itself without pressing any button when the battery is attached.
3. Phone gets warm on the top of the screen (not burning hot, but warm while powering on).
4. Phone sometimes freezes even in Settings.
5. Phone battery dies incredibly fast.

Stock ROM, no modifications. Battery seems to be original (eBay listing. B800BU 3200mAh S/N: AA1K030MS/2-B and a code similar to a QR Code

Because it can do 4g data I always thought the Note 3 was fully 4g capable but in hindsight this was just me being dumb. Now I look for it then of course I can see it switching to 3g every time I make a call. If only this phone came out a few months later it'd have VoLTE like the S5 :(

I'll keep using the Note 3 devices I have. Along with the mountain of spare batteries I've collected.

Music, audiobooks, internet, maps. The camera's not terrible, but that's the part I'll most appreciate replacing. Removable batteries though. Officially supported external battery chargers. Not sure if we will ever see the likes of those again. Not from Samsung anyway.

I had such a good experience with this device over the past few years since figuring out the simple process of installing LineageOS. I will post my 'simple minded' notes on how to do this as a comment in case it helps anyone. There are plenty of better guides elsewhere but maybe it will fill some gaps. It took me a while to get it but LineageOS, plus the support for external batteries has kept this phone alive for me longer than any other mobile device I've used.

This device was ahead of its time and has been surprisingly easy to keep alive. I feel it was after this generation that Samsung realised they needed to introduce a bit more 'planned obsolescence' within their device range.

I can explore using a 2g SIM but it's clear as 3g networks get switched off globally this device's days of use as a 'primary phone' are numbered.

I've been looking at upgrade options and whilst this won't suit everyone, I'm thinking either the Samsung Xcover 6 Pro or Fairphone 5 seem like interesting upgrade options.

If anyone has any suggestions for fun things to do with a phone that can't make calls I'd be open to ideas :)

I want to modify the weight required for the pressure sensitivity on the S-Pen on my Note 3 to start registering, as it takes alot of force to make it register something. Is this a thing with all of the S-Pens or is there a fix i could mayhaps use?

I'm using LineageOS 18, latest version.

Canadian model would be fine as well.

Hi everyone,

It seems like this phone isn't getting much use so I want to pass it on to someone who would have better use for it.

Model SM-9005, originally from Hong Kong (circa 2013). It's been updated to Lineage OS 18.1 (June 2023 patch) and factory resetted.

Overall this phone has been well cared for and is in great condition.

Included with it is: TG screen protector (installed) 32gb micro SD card (inside) 2x aftermarket 4200mAh batteries (purchased July 2022, very little use) External battery charger Original cable, sadly no power brick Extra stylus tips and removal tool

I will provide free shipping to CON US, unfortunately I can't ship internationally.

Please PM me what you will do with this phone if you get it and I will choose the best fit. Again, just want to make sure this phone is loved just towards the end.

Happy 4th of July everyone.

I have my old Note 3 that I am trying to get into to make sure I don't have any photos on it I don't want to forever lose before finally recycling it. It has been years since I have touched this phone. It's not connected to wifi or cellular data. I have fotten my password to get into the phone. Does anyone know any tricks to bypass the lockscreen? I was hoping with how old the phone is I would have found some kind of bypass video but I don't see anything but factory reset.

Used S Note app for years, recently updated my Note 3 firmware to Android 10 (via Lineage)

After that, cannot install a single S Note app - tried several versions from different sources, all of them crash or do not start

Only one (!) version of Samsung Notes (not S Note) worked - but it has no "import" feature...

Therefore question: where to migrate from S Note? By migrate I mean - export all existing notes from S Note (currently I can only export them to .pdf or .jpg files)

I do not need any "cloud sync" (honestly prefer to have no clouds or any sync at all), just need to import exported .pdf or .jpg to new app which is similar to S Note and is supported by Android 10

Thanks!!

Hi All,

I get a second Galaxy Note 3 N900 (exynos version) and as the title said, I need help in flashing TWRP. I had go into download mode & flash the TWRP file using odin 3.14.1. The result as below :

<ID:0/004> SetupConnectjon..

<ID:0/004> Initialization..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start! !

<ID:0/004> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/004> recovery.img

<ID:0/004> RQT_CLOSE !!

<ID:0/004> RES OK !!

<ID:0/004> Remain Port 0

<OSM> All threads completed (succeed 1 failed 0)

The device then reboot & then I manually power off & boot into recovery. Well, the TWRP was still not there & still showing default Samsung recovery.

Anybody can help me to point out what did I lack to do or some steps I need to do for samsung devices ?