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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BayuDroidz:
No remorse at all!

Coming from Nokia 97 mini, The Note + Android has set me free any restrictions.

Now, I can freely do anything, much anything on my phone!

Besides from making call and sms'ses, I'm using it for note taking in my meetings (catch+evernote), photography (sharing thru dropbox), video recording, web surfing, listen to music (tune-in radio pro) when I'm travelling, as a groceries list, car maintenance record list, my journal/diary, to-do, online movie booking, banking purposes, checking traffic summons, and a lot more to list it here.

I can't do that with my previous Nokia.

So, again, NO REMORSE AT ALL EVEN A BIT!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ilordvader:
Can we take Photo while talking on the phone ?

I tryed & could not :(

any one else knows how ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] leafsacc:
I find it heavier than SGS2 (well, duh...), heavy enough that it strains my wrist over prolonged period of time. Easier if held with both hands.

Will never switch back. May consider Galaxy Note (Plus or 2 or whatever it's called) or if someone else puts out a 6.3" screen that is a phone (not a tablet, that has no phone capabilities).

I don't mind going bigger. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kerisnaga:
still not working...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
The nasty, occasional lags. Feels like an unfinished product without ICS.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prohexa:
1. The placement of the wake/sleep button. Who the hell came up with the idea to place it on the opposite side of the volume button?! It should go ON TOP! :mad::mad::mad:

2. I hate TW - in particular the "phone/caller app". If you turn off the screen during a call, it will automatically TURN ON the screen again when you hang up (using headset). Then it will click around in your pocket. Aaarrgh! :mad::mad::mad:

3. The 10s lag when you wake the phone from deep sleep. When waking the phone from deep sleep and trying to start an app it often completely freezes and lags for up to 10 seconds. RocketRom v21. (or v20? Can't remember).

4. The crappy audio - there is a constant background hiss, making it extremely annoying to listen to anything on very low volume. :(

5. The "AutoBrightness" setting. This setting should have been called "Random flickering" instead. Absolutely useless.

I pray to the devs that at least (2) and (3) will be solved in ICS.

</rant>
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kbm:
Agree with No. 1 - I'm always turning the volume down when pressing the wake/ sleep button.

No.5 - try manual brightness, and control it via swiping left/ right on the notification bar.

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The S pen button- wrong place for accidental pressing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ilordvader:
Need Help Please

1) When i hit home screen I get Click sound, how to turn that off plz ?

I have unchecked the Lock screen sound button, still getting sound :(

do i need to Root for it to stop click sound

2) when i shut my phone & Unlock screen, all i need to do is hit the square Home button & it unlocks the phone

Keep Hope it does get ulocked to home scrren in pocket

Is there someway i can unlock it by sliding the

Lock than this way, that it gets unlocked by home screen ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
Have you disabled lockscreen with JKay mod ?

You would get better help if you ask this in Q&A section.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] _breez_:
my disappointments (coming from a Galaxy S):

- distorted sound when making videos in loud environments (this was also present on the Galaxy S, but voodoo sound root app fixed it)

- how they prevent rooting the device on newer firmware. Seriously, this is a major problem imo. I know you can get root by downgrading to an older firmware first, but that's just bull****

- the fact that the sound quality is crap compared to Galaxy S + voodoo sound :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] fast_asleep:
Just got this beast of a phone and initial impressions are wow :)

could do with being a tad lighter

i do love it more than the s2 - bigger is better!!

...but funny cause i thought i wouldn't have a 2nd thought getting rid of my s2, however that hasnt been the case. the s2 is so much nicer to operate/hold one handed (obviously) and i prefer to take it with me when out for the evening.. It has ever so slightly better blacks and wifi reception and the front bezel shape is nicer on the s2 than the note (slightly more rectangular looking than the four round edges. Gosh i hate being negative but then that's what this thread is about..

The note is instant wow factor and im sure it will be more fun than the s2 :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] truelies1:
1. Video black block problem

2. Not good made as iphone, two much plastic

3. 4.0 update super slow
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DeathOfAllThings:
Do you have 2.3.5 or 2.3.6? It's possible you don't notice it as well. It's just a small amount of distortion, some people don't notice it until they hear another device with good bluetooth playing the same track.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xinato91:
I have putted a root, but some times the phone freezes and have to restart manually, is that normal?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] katyarevishal:
Very honest reply........ i appreciate how u care for those small things which general user cant even think of (point 1 n 2 r example of dat)......
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] andshm:
i found that papago x5 won't run on galaxy note to resolution problem.

do any of you have an answer on how to get papago x5 to run on gnote?

thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mr.r9:
Keep it coming guys! This tread is much appreciated for potential buyers, like me.

I have a question, does any note owner work in a field job, like Construction?

If so, is the note a hindrance?

Too big for work? Any complaints?

Did any of you add a protection cover of any sort?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
the power button should have been moved lower down the side... or at the very least dont put the power and volume directly opposite each other... this drives me nuts about the device.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tdodd:
1. I dislike the placement and sensitivity of the volume and power buttons. They are too easily activated unintentionally. I have never before had a phone with the power button on the side. It is an odd design decision.

2. The phone is quite slippery in my hands and needs a case/cover to make it feel more secure.

3. Given point 1, I find using the phone as a camera troublesome. I am often zooming when I have no intention to, or powering off when I also don't mean to. It's a big phone and you want to grip it securely. Those buttons are positioned right where you would expect to apply a firm grasp.

4. Delay when awakening, before the unlock screen appears, is irritating.

5. Kies is a bit rubbish, especially if you have a lot of media on the phone and Kies spends a few weeks scanning it all every time you connect. Kies Air is worse. Connections are hit and miss and you can do practically bugger all when you are in it.

6. With Bluetooth I can pair the device with my Win 7 laptop, but I cannot transfer files from the phone. There is a device driver missing, so the phone does not install properly, and I've had no luck trying to plug the gap. I've Googled, checked the Dell site, checked the Samsung site, tried to install generic Widcomm drivers and no joy.

BUT, with all that said, I love this phone. The screen is glorious, and it's the main reason for the upgrade from my last phone, and apart from the lag when waking up the speed of operation is a joy. It was not a mistake to buy it. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] intruda119:
They shouldve made a small hands version. If you can somewhat grip a basketball you will have no problems navigating the Galaxy Note. I for one can, and have no issues holding the device or reaching buttons when I need to. The device isnt slippery in my hands. It has slipped out of my basketball shorts once while sitting though.

This is a bigger version of the sgs2 with a stylus.

My newest issue is the raised glass on the side, dont see this ending well unless its kept in a case.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] carhigh:
I hate that a lot of games don't work, or you have to figure out how to get them to work with other apps and tweaks/mods.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ralphrmartin:
Lack of built in SIP calling is an annoyance to me, as I need a separate client.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Diamantes:
well, I have just updated to stock 2.3.6 KKA but apart from some changes in browser light settings, I don't see any difference, I get also sometimes the impression that it is slower in some operations, especially browsing the touchwiz...

Plus:

when receiving an sms, if I swype from lockscreen to see it, it takes a lot of time and it passes through main page

lag when waking up phone from lockscreen

with stock kernel, system uses a lot of power (I am going to change it to a custom one as soon as I have time)

bluetooth on my car is not working properly: I cannot read contacts and sometimes the phone disconnects also when phoning or it has difficulties to connect when a in-call comes...

I know that some of this bugs are well known, but they are very disappointing to me. In any case, the phone in general is good but I think we will see a real improvement with ICS. Note was clearly designed at first with ICS on board, but other reasons delayed the development (Nexus...).

I hope that in the meantime some good cooker will solve at least partially the big drain of the battery due to the big screen and some other android system issue (levels of auto-brightness are awful...)

my 2 cents.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bundles:
Other than being more difficult to operate with one hand, I love it. Banding is still an issue for me, bit hopefully will be fixed when they update the software and programs start using a higher bit interface. Other than that I love my note.

I love the look I get when I pull it out. People don't say much at first, then they see it on the table totally dwarfing their galaxy s 2 or iphone, and realize that I am basically using a tablet for a phone.

They may laugh at first, seeing how unwieldly it may be. But once they see how easy it is to read and type, I can see the gears turning in their heads trying to figure out if they can get away using a note for a phone. Most people discard the idea pretty quickly, but you can tell they are considering it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dogz85:
I hate the unlock motions.

I love the size ( big hands here )

Loud speaker needs to be louder.

Power button should be an inch or two lower.

The tw launcher was slow. Quickly changed to adw launcher ant now its a dream.

Music is ok. Not brilliant but ok.

Stylus does not work on soft buttons.

I love the screen and res. There is no way i could go back to the galaxy SII
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] GALAXYNOTE:
1 some parts of the screen arent very responsive to touch and ocassionally i need to tap 2-3 times for it to react.

2 When its on charger the whole screen becomes very unresponsive. I cant scroll the app drawer left and right without it registering a click. Its annoying as hell. The bottom right part of the screen just becomes dead as long as the charger is plugged in. When I remove the charger evrything comes back to normal.

3 Battery life is very unstable. Sometimes it can last day and a half,, but sometimes it can go 100-0 in 4 hours. I know it depends on app and the content/color your screen is showing or whatnot but still its one fo the things i dont like about the note.

4 the 7.7 is out here in hk, just wish i hadn't bought a second note for my gf so i could have them both. (ok this isnt a problem of the note itself but watever)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thebigak:
Coming from a very bare and tuned up Dell Streak (Zeam launcher and stripped out Dell Stage UI) I found that I could not type as fast and the scrolling in some instances was much jerkier and less responsive. I am very fast at typing and use Smart Keyboard Pro, as it offers the most lag free typing experience, and with identical keyboard versions I am able to type faster on the Streak.

Another user mentioned that perts of the touch screen are less responsive, and I can confirm this. I have an expensive 3M Vikuiti screen protector fitted and have not tried the screen without, but Vikuiti are meant to be one of the best screen protectors for not affecting the touch sensitivity etc. I used the free screen protector supplied with my Otterbox case on the Streak, and even with the lower quality protector I found the screen more consistently responsive on the Streak.

The CPU performance of the Note is unbelievable compared with the Streak, especially when installing and removing apps etc.

I have tested the touch sensor on the Note with 10 separate moving points (all fingers of both hands) and can confirm it is able to track all reliably.

I experimented with battery consumption on the Note and found 3G to be a massive drain, so I use it the same way as I used my Streak with GPRS enable most of the time and switching to 3G when required. I can manage to get two solid days battery life with this method.

AMOLED screens are notorious munchers of battery life when displaying white or any bright image, so I use a more dark space theme wallpaper and the black keyboard skin on Smart Keyboard pro to increase the battery life still further.

The main mod I can confirm that made a massive difference was a build.prop modification to increase the scrolling responsiveness/smoothness. The line is actually there by default on the build.prop file but Samsung in all their wisdom decided to remark it out with a hash... :confused:

The line you need to edit reads:

#windowsmgr.max_events_per_sec=140

If you root your Note with Super One Click, then edit the build.prop file in the system folder to remove the hash (#) at the beginning of the line and save the file it will increase the screen responsiveness of the touch digitizer/sensor.

You can notice this most when scrolling in a web browser or unlocking the phone with the pattern unlock. Everything will just seem smoother. I have read that you can use a higher number for even greater responsiveness, but I was afraid of getting stuck in a reboot loop so I just left the Samsung default figure of 140.

I also added the following line to the build.prop file, although I am not sure if it makes any difference on the Galaxy Note:

debug.sf.hw=1

That is meant to enable GPU acceleration of certain Android window animations etc.

Sorry for the excessively long post. I would have posted some of this in the development section but I have not made the minimum number of 10 posts to qualify! If any of you want to start a post in the development section with tested build.prop mods, then feel free to copy and paste anything from here.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AdzUK:
Needs ICS, everything else is awesome. We could do with a huge price drop of 64GB micro sd cards because I am seriously getting tempted... :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megapimp:
Bluetooth is amazing with the note and my car. I have a 2011 Jeep Rubicon and it is flawless as my Samsung galaxy Charge was. I notice poor quality on HTC phones and this is something i dearly care about. My note functions perfect via BT Audio and Call quality
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] inertiaholic:
my only complaint so far after a couple of weeks with the Note is the battery drain on wifi seems much faster than on my galaxy s2. but strangely the battery drain is not fast on other functions.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dennishhh:
I'm disappointed with it's 5.3" display,wish it was 6.3" As I use my Note more I'm finding I have more room in my pockets. I like people saying "OH my god that's big"!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] joggie555:
yip the auto brightness and the lag with the lauchers.....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] neilmc81:
Power button is ****! Reboots my phone in my pocket.

Need to change its location i sometimes lock my phone when i use the volume button.

Neil
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LAKAME_MAN:
black clipping (though not much)

emmc..

That is all.

everything else, just perfect.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sc00by666:
Black clipping.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
I got one of those crapy gell covers to cure the exact same thing. Anyway, all history for me.

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I guess the only other 'little' disappointment I had, was with **** samsung customer services. With my refund money, I think I'll chill with a Nikon D7000 and take some cool pics. Maybe I'll see what Note MkII brings.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] azzledazzle:
My only disappointment with the note is the build quality - As with all Samsungs they tend to lack that 'rugged' feel.

Saying that, My SGS1 is over 18months old now and is still bearing up, Not much damage (little scratch on glass, hair line crack on battery cover) But the back cover of the Note feels like its gonna crack everytime i remove it.

My last 2 phones where HTC (Sensation & One S) and I must admit they felt incredibly well made, If only I could have a Samsung in a HTC Shell !!! I'd be so happy :)

I know its all about the weight and making the phone extremely slim and light, But with technology we have these days, Cant we make a phone that isnt plastic ?

Samsungs are the only phones Ive had that MUST have a case on. (which adds weight and bulk)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] pakkredd:
I'm disappointment about battery
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sonkameja:
The God dam battery

I've cleaned all of the bloatwear

I've emptied the ram

I've changed the radio to only use 2g

I've turned off background data

I under clocked the CPU

I've lower the brightness of the screen

I don't have the screen on for long periods of time

This fkn phone loses all power by five hours of mediocre usage

Pure trash ... someone give me a fuel cell battery or a nuclear powered one cuz I'm sick of tip toeing around everything I do on this 600$ machine

What more can we do just short of getting a huge ass battery from mugen for another 100 dollars (which is one hell of a ripoff)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jangwl:
You need to have ICS 4.0.3 to resolve your battery issues.

Yours Sincerely

Richard

http://www.pspmyspace.com
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CONTACTMC:
black clipping...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] suhas_greeneyes:
EMMC BUG..i think its biggest frustation for most of users. I had alredy brick my phone. N now i m afrading to even root my phone.. Hopefully it ll get fix soon n den i can do watever i wanna do wid note..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sonkameja:
I'm on stock gingerbread friend :-(

... ics ... I've never even touched the stuff
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] THUDUK:
Most issues seemed to be sorted by updates, different apps, kernels and roms, but one that just can't be fixed is the audio, although perfectly adequate most of the time, when you are listening through your headphones to music, especially the quiet sounds you can't get away from the constant hiss, it happens when ever you start anything that requires sound, also on very quiet music the sound literally stops and starts making the experience awful, my music is hugely important, can't really use the note for music listening, my old knackered sansa clip I bought from a car boot sale for a quid sounds 100 times cleaner, how can an expensive bit of kit like this **** up sounds so badly....or am I doing something wrong or not done some tweak

Sent from a galaxy note far far away
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] endlesslove19th:
EMMC bugs, battery, no physical camera shutter and capture a bit slow.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kourabies2:
All my previous smartphones had a pen (Symbian & Win Mobile) and the screen rendering was pretty fast on most cases. On the note although I can tell that the S-Pen is lagging and even more when using the S-memo. Other notepad applications are way faster. I hope this has been fixed in the ICS update (which I haven't got yet).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rayan:
Under ICS the SPen responsiveness have has been improved exponentially!

You can get ICS right now if you check the development forum.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Alejandrissimo:
5 hours? Maybe your battery is damaged.

Mine was good but suddenly, battery life goes to hell. 5 or 6 hours and it's dead.

Put your battery on the table or a tablet. Spin the battery, if it does then it's damaged.

Usually a damaged battery gets fat in the center.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RASTANIUS:
@ dennishhh

This is the BEST : LOL :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Viamonte:
You, my friend, posted something very useful and comprehensive. Even if double-pasted xD
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thebigak:
You guys really need to try out the build.prop modifications I posted in this thread, it has made the phone a whole different animal! :D

Now we just need someone to start a thread on this topic in development so we can get some other guys experimenting too... I hate being the only guinea pig...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DeathOfAllThings:
Which android version do you have? 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 And which kernal do you have? I'm not the only one that has mentioned bluetooth audio quality was bad... and you're not the first person to say yours is great. I'm wondering if one of the versions has the problem fixed. Please let me know, thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thebigak:
Sorry about the double post, I wondered why it looked so long! :o
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] brycestejskal:
The poor Bluetooth audio quality is really only apparent on a high quality stereo, in my experience.

I run 250w RMS to each door speaker and 900w RMS to my subs, totaling 1900 Watts RMS, not peak. The difference between Bluetooth audio and a 3.5mm headphone cable is like night and day. But my Dell Streak and Galaxy S didn't fair any better.