Samsung Galaxy Note 3 GPS Issue

@ Sgleon :

I hope your phoen stays fixed.. but it is very unlikly.     I am on my third phone,  and each time it worked GREAT for about 48 hours... and then the same problem came back.

I an curiouse..  how long have you had your new phone so far?

Question:  Could you tell us, or point to thread, that gives instructions on how to disable the AT&T updates?  Hey.. if that fixes the problem, I will wipe my phone, and give it a try...

Danny

P.S.  BTW:   Yes, it is not complicated to root the phone, and fix the problem...  but that does void the warenty.  on a $800 phone,  that is not acceptable to me.   I even paid EXTRA for the extended warernty at Best Buy.

@ njob79

No offence,  but for many of us,  we do not really have a choice.. or rather... we only have EXPENSIVE choices.

If I try to change carriers,   I have to pay an Early  termination fee..  or charge, or what ever they call  it.   I think its about $350

Ok..  I just spent an hour and a half on the phone with AT&T……  I did get to a manger..  long story short, the only resolution he could offer me was replacing my phone with a DIFFERENT phone model  (He actually suggested the Samsung Mega as “comparable”....  I pointed out that is is slower, no stylus, etc….   no sale).

Other fun details I found out during this conversation:  He said that AT&T has no idea about this problem.   I told him about this thread, and offered to send him the link,  and he told me that the AT&T customer service computers are BLOCKED from being able to look at the AT&T forums.

I pointed out to him that this thread was created on November 18 2013,  had 14,440 views, and 264 messages in it.

He talked to tech support, and said they did not know about it,...  but that he agreed it was ridiculous, because a simple google search makes it obvious that this has been a problem for a long time,  but AT&T just did not know about it.

I am going to root my phone, to fix the GPS myself, .... and demand that AT&T credit me for the full cost of the phone,  since they have forced me to void my warranty

Danny

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I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but for two full days now the Note 3 (new) has been unavailable On AT&Ts website? Really unusual....

Not so odd it is a popular phone to sell out isn't that rare,and every AT&T
store within 10 miles of me does have it in stock.

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Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3

@ lbDanny

I have had the phone about 4 days now, but only tested it in the first day and half. I am in Manhattan and with all this snow have not used the car much.

I really hope my GPS does not break in a few days, everyone here seems to think I am in for a let down.

BTW: ATT also sent me a new SIM.

You have to root to control stuff like freezing or uninstalling ATT & Samsung bloatware/ features.

I use Titanium backup pro and a security suite named LBE, LBE is amazing it gives you control over everything that runs on your phone, remove ads and tracking in apps, you would be surprised how many paid apps still track your activity (location, IMEI #, calls, contact, basically everything on your monitored by almost every app, worst than the NSA). Also block apps on Chrome browser.

Edit you startup apps, disable knox.

Replacing the ROM on this phone is a pain, plus if I have to return it to stock.

So choose to keep the ATT stock OS but control everything that runs on my phone.

I now have amazing battery life and it is faster, but the extra speed is hard to notice because it was already fast.