Author: Tarandeep Kaur

This is a case review of Scout case for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it for the Urban Armor Gear. I picked this up few days ago and have been using it since then. UAG cases normally has good reviews and this one is no exception. I bought the Urban Armor Scout Note 3 case from Urban Armor’s website. The case retails for $ 34.95 and that includes free shipping via USPS.

The packaging is really good. UAG makes a lot of cases for lot of different phones so they have same packaging for iPhones, HTC phones and Samsung phones. The packaging includes a screen protector, cleaning cloth and the case.

Made of high quality TPU

The UAG Scout is made from TPU on the inside. For those who do not know about TPU – it is not cheap silicon that you find in most cheap cases. Such cases pick up dirt easily and look really bad after few days of use.

On the outside, there is hard plastic with a big UAG logo which looks pretty cool. The detail on this case is really remarkable. The fake rivets gives it a rugged look.

On the sides, there are honeycomb cutouts and it will give you just enough grip to hold on to the phone. The cutouts are really nice. Sleep / power and volume buttons are covered. Buttons are not stiff and make clicky sound which is nice.

A lot of people think that is a UAG Scout is a two piece case but it is not. It is all fused together into one solid piece. All you have to do is take your phone and guide it into the case.

Rugged protection

It adds extra protection on the sides. So if you drop from, say like 6 or 7 feet, it will protect the display from getting scratched or messed up. There is a little lip on the corners of back side that protects the camera, back of the case from getting scratched.

Verdict

The UAG Scout for Galaxy Note 3 does not add a lot of bulk. I have medium hands and I have no problem in gripping this case. It is a great case and does not cost a lot of money. Feel free to check out UAG case collection at urbanarmorgear.com

VIA High DS 2 is a new Android Mini PC for the new digital age. VIA High DS 2 specifications include a VIA Elite E1000 CPU based on Cortex A9 architecture, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. It will go on sale online at a price of $ 195.

VIA High DS 2 has fanless design and is very compact. It is very powerful too as it can handle a second screen and play 4K content simultaneously. It comes equipped with dual core VIA Elite E1000 1 GHz processor based on Cortex A9 SoC that delivers high 2D and 3D performance with support for hardware acceleration and support for Open GL ES 3.0 standards.

Ports selection of VIA High DS 2 includes two HDMI ports, two USB 2.0, two mini USB 2.0, 10/100 Ethernet, audio jack and SD card slot to expand the internal storage. It runs Android 4.3 and will retail for 195 dollars.

Italy is not very well know for its computer industry and OnePC is looking forward to change that. OnePC is an Italian based desktop vendor that also makes laptops and all in one computers. It has launched a new product in the market called OnePC Cube which looks like a small speaker box. However OnePC Cube specifications do not disappoint the geeks as the vendor is offering it with Linux operating system.

OnePC Cube specifications. Five variants will be offered

1) OP.CS05 / OP.CS05W with Intel Celeron G1840 2.8 GHz, 4GB RAM, 1000GB HDD starts from 269 Euros;
2) OP.CS06 / OP.CS06W with Intel Pentium G3250 3.2 GHz, 4GB RAM, 1000GB HDD starts from 299 Euros;
3) OP.CS07 / OP.CS07W with Intel Core i3-4160 3.6 GHz, 4GB RAM, 1000GB HDD starts from 359 Euros;
4) OP.CS08 / OP.CS08W with Intel Core i5-4460 to 3.2GHz, 4GB RAM, 1000GB HDD starts from 449 Euros;
5) OP.CS09 / OP.CS09W with AMD A8-3850, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD starts from 239 EUR.

Extremely compact

The OnePC Cube is customizable, extremely compact and versatile. You can watch streaming movies, surf the net, play online and interact with social networks. It does not disappoints on ports selection too as it features two USB 3.0 ports on front panel and 300 Mbps wireless networking card.

You can choose between a dedicated GPU Nvidia GeForce GT 730 or GT 750 and Ubuntu Linux or windows 8.1 (100 euro extra) operating system. No matter which Cube model you get, you get three year warranty.

Samsung Galaxy S6 is a great phone but not all of us can upgrade to a new model. Note 3 Neo ROM with Samsung Galaxy S6 is now available on XDA and it works flawlessly.

Settings with air command included on S-PEN
Gallery white with Album mode fixed text remaining data mode to fix
SMS Lollipop Dainty
Contact app
S-Note from Note 4 ported
New SystemUI with new style + icon lollipop
New lockscreen s6 style
Added theme support on settings
Updated Google Play , Play service , Samsung Account
Added sketchbook
Samsung Gapps S6 extracted from System stock s6 G920F
Complete wallpaper stock s6 (include new wallpaper)
New icon HD from stock s6 (without borders black or cropped)
New Lockscreen S6 style
New Touchwiz launcher with folder + text color fixed
New Settings S6 Style modded
New Clock app style Lollipop
New calculator lollipop
Samsung Keyboard Lollipop finally fixed implemented
New Framework lollipop style
New Samsung Galaxy S6 Audio (Ringtone , Ui , Notification) extracted from system stock s6

• Download link for ROM – Mirror
• Patch fix for SM-N750

To install it, place the ROM into the root folder and flash using CWM or TWRP for Note 3 neo. Flashing will take a while and soon your system will boot up.

Artas182x has released Note 3 Neo kernel that allows you to easily underclock or overclock the device. It is compatible with all kitkat 4.4.4 firmware. To flash this custom kernel for Note 3 Neo, you will need custom recovery pre installed on your device.

To flash follow these instructions:

1. Download the custom kernel from here.  
2. Boot into Note 3 Neo TWRP or CWM Note 3 Neo recovery
3. Flash the ZIP file
4. Reboot

Kernel features in detail:
Compiled with SaberMod 4.8 Toolchain
Added ROW (default), ZEN and SIO I/O Schedulers
Added PowerSuspend module
Enabled 1400 and 1500 Mhz frequency for A7 cores (use TricksterMod for example to enable)
Enabled 667 Mhz GPU frequency (enabled by default)
Compiled with optimized flags
Enabled more Power Saving tweaks
Added Dynamic FSync (enabled by default)
Some I/O optimizations and tweaks
Replaced LED colors wth more natural and gentle RGB
Configurable LED RGB through /sys/class/sec/led/
Added and enabled UKSM (better version of KSM)
Init.d support
Readahead increased to 2048

The official TWRP and CWM for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo is now available online, courtesy of XDA. Folks at team win are people behind TWRP.

You can download TWRP or CWM from below given links:

• TWRP
• CWM

It shall be noted that your warranty will be voided after flashing Note 3 Neo TWRP or Note 3 Neo CWM. It will also increase your knox counter. CWM is only meant to be used in dual SIM  variant which is N7502.

CWM Note 3 Neo installation instructions

STEP 1 :
– Download and setup ADB drivers for your device
can be found here Drivers
STEP 2 :
– Download the recovery from links given on the top.
– Download odin 3 Link
– Turn of your device and go to odin mode [ Vol down + power + home button (all at the same time) ] release it when you see Note Neo logo
– Press vol up to confirm
STEP 3 :
– Now that you are in odin mode connect your device via usb cable !
– Now open Odin3 3.09 that you have downloaded.
– If there is a pop-up like Installing ADB drivers let it get finished it is usually updates.
– Make sure the COM : xx (xx is usb port number it can be any number so don’t worry about it,just verify COM is lit up)
– Select the recovery (Link in STEP 2) ! Now select AP and browse to where you have .tar file and select it
MAKE SURE U UNTICK THE AUTO-REBOOT BUTTON
– Click Start

Root Note 3 Neo

-Download SuperSu (obviously the latest one) from here ——> Click here
– Copy that to internal sd card
– Power off your device and press vol up + power + home button (all at once) – Select install zip from sdcard —>choose zip from sdcard —> scroll down and flash UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.xx.zip

Team win has released latest version of TWRP for Galaxy Note 3. You can download Note 3 TWRP from the link given at the bottom of this page. The TWRP is the most popular custom recovery and many prefer it over CWM as it allows users to interact via touchscreen.

In this Note 3 TWRP you can use onscreen keyboard to input data. In other words it is a must have if you are into flashing custom ROMs. Samsung is really sluggish in pushing firmware update.

This Note 3 TWRP also allows you to backup and restore partitions. Also after some time you may get bored of the user interface but don’t fret as you will be able to easily skin with bucketful of TWRP themes available online.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Canada (hltecan)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 International Exynos (ha3g)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 International Qualcomm (hlte)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Sprint (hltespr)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 T-Mobile (hltetmo)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 US Cellular (hlteusc)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Verizon (hltevzw)

If you don a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N900, you can download the new Galaxy S6 lock screen on it. Samsung has a habit of tweaking and updating the lock screen of their Galaxy devices and the Galaxy S6 lock screen looks sleeker and sweeter than ever. It looks very clean and elegant. If you want to get all features of Galaxy S6 on note 3 then we suggest installing this ROM from galaxy note news portal.

You can download it link given below. Then to install it, go into custom recovery of Note 4  and browse for the file you downloaded. Select Install to install the Galaxy S6 lock screen on Note 3 N900.

To further make it like Galaxy S6, you can install touch wiz themes of S6 on Note 3 using our tutorial.

• Download link 

Folks at XDA developers have ported Galaxy S6 ROM to Note 3 N9005 USA LTE version. The final build is very stable and is perfect for day to day use. It includes the new Samsung official memory manager and following Galaxy S6 features:

S6 transplant weather (can stretch the weather display optional AROMA)
S6 transplant starter (5×5 optional AROMA does not currently support the overall theme S6)
S6 transplant Calculator
S6 transplant wallpaper
S6 transplant recorder
S6 browser transplant
S6 transplant Calendar
S6 transplant newsletter
S6 transplant Samsung store
Transplant S6 File Manager
S6 transplant Task Manager
S6 start-up tone
S6 transplant dialers (AROMA optional)
S6 transplant powerful intelligent assistant
S6 transplant email

• Download ROM from here.

Install it using clock work mod or twrp recovery for Note 3. It is great to see S6 features ported to Note 3. Just few days back Note 4 and S5 features were ported to Galaxy Note 3.

A new custom ROM brings Galaxy Note 4 and S5 features to Samsung Galaxy Note 3. First XDA developers ported Note 4 launcher to S4 and now they have ported Note 4 and Galaxy S5 features to Note 3 N900. Tural, an XDA user has ported Note 4 and S5 features to Note 3.

* Stock Russian based (BO6)
* S5 Gallery (Lollipop)
* UPSM
* Toolbox
* Sidekey (full work)
* 3 dot Menu with app switch
* Note 4 ,S5 Accuweather
* 3d minit batery mod
* New TouchWiz with Theme select
* AOPS SystemUI
* S Memo Lollipop
* S5 style camera
* MultiWindow all apps
* Note 4 Music Player
* Note 4 My files
* Notə 4 voice recorder
* Extra apps (Activity, S5 Toolbox Addon,S Reminder )etc.
* 8 lockscreen Effect
* Note 4 Multi User

Here are the flashing instructions:

1) Flash Stock Russian rom with Odin
2) Root and open twrp or cwm
3) Full Wipe Factory Reset
4) Flash this firmware
5) and reboot