Various non-Samsung accessories would no longer work with the Galaxy Note 3 after the Android 4.4.2 kit kat update is ge lwa installed. Samsung has this firmware version, the controversial accessory authentication system enabled.
Samsung used rfid chips in its own accessories to be as an ‘official’ product to be able to recognize, but in the Android 4.3 firmware of the Galaxy Note 3 was the accessory authentication system is not turned on. In the update to kit kat, this is the case, so notify users on Sammobile. Under other pockets of the company Spigen with the S View window would no longer work, because they do not have the right rfid chip.
With it in silence to enable the security mechanism, a method that is often used by Apple is used, seems to be Samsung fans against the grain to iron. This happened previously with the controversial regiolock.
Companies that are still accessories for the Note 3 wish to release, should probably be a license to Samsung decrease, but the method can, after root access to the system is obtained, be enabled via the Xposed Framework. The owner of a Note 3 with the root access, however, the risk to the warranty.
Update, 16:33: Samsung leave a response to Sammobile know that the Android 4.4 update is not related to non-functional third-party accessories. Also to Note-holders ‘of course,’ accessories from other companies can use with their smartphone. It is unclear, however, whether there is an error in the kit kat firmware for the Galaxy Note 3, and whether this will be quickly remedied.