Forever later it finally finished.
First the bad, and there ain't much so far. Aftermarket data toggle is still broken. My widgets didn't load their photos because they said the photos weren't there. App icons with custom photo are fine. Widgets easy to fix.My wallpaper didn't load because phone renamed dcim folder to some long name, app didn't recognize it, no biggie to fix.
Now the good so far. S pen can now set custom shortcuts
AND I have enabled the option to set the floating icon so it's tap that now instead of push the button on the pen . Here's what I mean . It's always on when screen is on
Speaking of on, the screen off memo works GREAT, with or without a lockscreen set. My aftermarket app only worked with a lockscreen and I like my phone without one. This was honestly the only reason I wanted M in the first place. Icons for bloatware look different and much more like Touch Wiz on Windows Mobile from last decade.
It didn't get hot enough to fry eggs like usual when doing updates but it still got very warm when "optimizing apps" . It was on the charger so I don't know how much battery to update but from 5.0 to the latest security patch it used to use about 20%.
Fonts and colors of S Note and things are also very much like my Omnia phone (WM) UI
S Note after the last security patch was sluggish and/or froze up the phone each time I used it. It's still slow to load "all" in the app itself but all the residuals like action memo and stuff are back to snappy and a time saver once again.
Some had mentioned notification previews not being there anymore I think but they are still there on mine in the pull down, if that's what they were meaning.
Double tap screen while holding button on the s pen still opens quick memo but with the floating icon and screen off memo that won't get used by me much anymore.
Write On pdf is still an aftermarket app and not embedded like it is on the Note7 but still works well.
I'll post more as I see more.
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