{"id":337,"date":"2014-02-11T21:09:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-02-11T21:09:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T21:09:56","slug":"3-reasons-to-skip-the-samsung-4-3-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/11\/3-reasons-to-skip-the-samsung-4-3-update\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons to skip the Samsung 4.3 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so there are <strong>lots<\/strong> of posts around the web about why you should <strong>not<\/strong> update your Samsung Galaxy\/Note XX phone to 4.3, which Verizon pushed on me a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battery life now sucks.<\/li>\n<li>Touchscreen response is much worse.<\/li>\n<li>As of Android 4.3, USB Mass Storage device mode is no longer supported. You have to use some wierd Microsoft MTP or PTP &#8211; basically music device or picture device, that is slower, and requres extra software to be install on many (older or linux) computers.This part aparently has a a little bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Android\/comments\/1aqjd0\/why_do_new_versions_of_android_not_support_usb\/\">technical explanaintion<\/a>, relating to licensing fees on the FAT filesystem. Doesn&#8217;t matter. I still don&#8217;t like it.<\/li>\n<li>If you ever want to go back to the stock (or older) versions, you can&#8217;t without a JTAG programmer (ie a piece of specialized hardware), or else you&#8217;ll &#8220;brick&#8221; your phone. And depending on the sources that you read, you might even &#8220;brick&#8221; your phone by rooting it (seems like it depends on if you change the OS version at the same time or not).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so there are lots of posts around the web about why you should not update your Samsung Galaxy\/Note XX phone to 4.3, which Verizon pushed on me a few weeks ago. Battery life now sucks. Touchscreen response is much worse. As of Android 4.3, USB Mass Storage device mode is no longer supported. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3p6ZE-5r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}