yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] alfabet0:
Samsung doesn't love me

I'm new to the Android platform, I didn't know my phone was faulty until it was to late to return

I'll attempt to list all the bugs that my Galaxy Note has:

Severe Lag:

Slow processing speed on the OS and all applications suffer from lag and stutter, copy & past is almost imposable at times.

Kiss software says this is the latest firmware : PDA:KKA / PHONE:KK5 / CSC:KK3 (XEU)

Screen problems:

1.There is what they call banding on low resolution images lines and other defects appear on screen.

2.In a page that has a white backround (happens with some other backgrounds too but especially with white) I notice this:

The white changes shades... for ex.: it could take a pink-ish shade or a green-ish shade or a light blue one.

when using stock ebook reader It's like trying read a book at a disco.

3. Faint red stuck pixels to top right of the screen spreading out thinly to the bottom right, it's most apparent when screen is set on low light settings.

Don't miss understand me I love the Galaxy Note concept, and I understand that it may be I'm in the minority of unlucky customers.

But having contacted Samsung directly via My Samsung account two days later and they've yet to reply and it doesn't look like their are going to either.

I feel utterly lost.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeromepearce:
I have none of that, and I think most do not.

Demand a replacement, and accept no excuses!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bubblesmoney:
Call up their help line number can be found on website, then make your complaint and ask for reference number ABMs ask for phone to be replaced. Amazon accepts replacements upto a month or even refund. Quote the sale of goods acts and distance selling regulations which ever may be applicable in your case. Get it replaced or repaired.

---------- Post added at 06:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:57 PM ----------

There is a recent post by a note owner on this forum who said it worked on his note. So try removing the account from the social hub then set up the email app by Samsung to receive push messages then again set up the hub. That's what I remember worked for the other chap on the post I referred to. Or give Samsung a call, they were a helpful bunch when I had called.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] flame_jet:
this is my new android phone and i dont know much but my disappoinment on my note is that i cant play my favorite facebook game. other than that is pretty good.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] samgcw:
I would say, very disappointed on Note's sound quality via earphone.

I played same song(file) with same earpiece (Sennheiser low end model) on Note and iphone 4. The gap seem too big.

Voodoo Loud not really help in sound quality yet I still purchased and wish for miracle. hahaha......

The rest of Note, a BIG thumb UP!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mickwa76:
I know the sound is quite inferior. If you want good sound though, use a bluetooth Stereo headphone. Then you'll see the difference.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PLEEZEFRAGME:
I reconized this too. I came from a Nexus S and if i turn on the base in the Equalizer App (from the market) it felt like my head explodes, with the Note theres just the Equalizer workig wich is within the stock Music app and that one scratches the base so it sounds like youre in a Cokecan...

other than that i want a Transparent statusbar^^ why does samsung make theming that thing so hard?????^^
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mickwa76:
I have the same issues. Rooted and flashed another rom to get rid of the lag. Darky Rom did that for me. And yes, Samsung doesn't reply to embarrassing issues. My next phone isn't going to be a Samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mickwa76:
I hate touch wiz!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] WereCatf:
If you think any other manufacturer does then you'll be sorely disappointed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MrDSL:
Hmmm

1.) I'll admit the sound was a bit low so I installed equilizer and that seems much better.

2.) That I didn't buy it sooner.

3.) That the screen is so big and beautiful I am afriad of using my phone and possibly dropping it etc
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Arrancamos:
Just one thing about screen, it can be scratched easily... even with its own spen OMG, that is terrible!

after that, all is great, superb!

but I cry about screen quality, in less than a week 1 large scratch! :mad:; 2 weeks 3 scratches, 3 weeks, lof of them can´t count now... and I still can't find screen protector :eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MrDSL:
Try the AT&T store..The one down the street from had some for sell..I dont use them myself.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Arrancamos:
the one down the street? ^^
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MrDSL:
Sometimes I type too fast..You know the AT$T store down the street from me..I'm sure you have a AT&T store in your town and on a street.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] levchikb:
To start - I LOVE my Note - best phone I ever had, but since this is about little disappointments, here we go:

1 - need to remove battery to get access to SIM / SD card (so annoying, after using Inspire 4G / Desire HD where you could just slide plastic cover off)) - If this was a tiny phone, I'd understand - but there is SO much room to make this work.

2 - screen got scratched VERY fast inside the jeans pocket - probably thos little metal things on the right pocket - but still - so much for "scratch-resistant"

3 - HATE TouchWiz ... worst overlay EVER ... and because of proprietary drivers - no REAL custom roms - only official-based roms

4 - When I got it (Early Dec, 2011) there were no accessories in US, so before I got a slim case / screen shield, it got all beat up and scratched ... does not feel new anymore... oh well

On the good note - ICS just leaked, so there will be a flood of new roms - including CM9 and other TRUE custom roms without stupid touch-wiz-in-my-pants
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mickwa76:
Apple does
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TungstenM:
agree on these 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dekky18:
Im also disapointed in note glass quallity. I have 2 scratches on screen but the problem is that ive been extra carfulY with it. I really dont understand why is it so scratch not proof. :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] levchikb:
Guys BTW - I got XtremeGuard screen protector and it is awesome

Why awesome?

It sticks very well - not a single bubble

It is made of "rubbery" material vs. typical transparent plastic shield, and therefore is not scratched by metal things (keys, etc)

And best of all it's only $2 on Amazon - I bought 3 for future, but the first one I put on the Note is in the same shape as the day I put it on ... no edges coming up or anything like that ... should have done it right away!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bubblesmoney:
Just a follow up post after my previous post in this thread.

The widgets by Samsung look crap. They need to hire a proper software designer. Most of the widgets on Android have the name typed at the bottom but they designed the torch widget in opposite and put the words at the top instead. It looks ugly when in the company of other widgets on home screen. Same for the widget that had the word Samsung galaxy note. It is much larger in size than regular Android widgets so hone screen looks ugly if you put it along side other widgets as all others are of one size and Samsung widgets look different on home screens. Certainly notable and ugly.

Also if you have more than the hundred apps. (bought apps more than a hundred fifty pounds in last two days) then certainly disable auto update as the bug in move to sd causes havoc after auto update so best to do manual update app by app as after a hundred or more apps then apps to as move is buggy and many times it says app moved top sd but done in a faulty manner and just 4 or 8 Kb goes across and phone starts reboot loops later as faulty move to sd card causes problems. If done slowly app by app then phone is ok so have disabled auto move to sd and do it manually instead and phone is now fine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] primsim:
Mail client ! I would love to see more emails in the same screen. For some reason they created it with BIG lines. Even with smaller fonts...

The speaker phone is not that powerful.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Sol Ido:
I'm coming from the HTC world so what i really miss is the LED.

Looks like every thing is reverse in this domain.

With my HTC Magic i got several colors that i can configure ( mail, sms, etc)

Desire HD only one color

Galaxy Note : NONE :/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bubblesmoney:
try the app NOLED if interested. I havent tried it but read that it uses screen flashes in certain points instead of LED for alert. dont know effects on battery etc but you can check it out if interested.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] liondroid:
:D awesome phone with awesome benchmarks without

any patch, but screen is disappointing me

showing some dark lines in greys
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SealsNavie:
I have a complain...I think the screen size is too small, they could have at least made it 6"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ueihtam:
Touchwiz and SD card access, that's all for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mafiatounes:
I traded my Galaxy Nexus with the Note today and one thing that will give more usability to the note will be ICS.

The second thing i dont like is that most widgets are not resizeable and have a standard width of 4 tiles the note uses 5, so hoping that Samsung will make this available in ICS!

Sent from my beautiful Samsung Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] truelies1:
What I don't like on note:

1. no 1700MHz for t-mobile 3G

2. All made by plastic, looks cheap if compared with iphone 4S
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mcmaddcatt:
#1 The stock firmware is pretty bad compared to the custom rom/kernel mixes out there, this however is to expected but the Galaxy SII stock firmware is much more snappy and stable in my opinion.

#2 SDcard isn't hot-swappable, I have to remove the battery first in order to access it.

#3 The Note has ruined regular sized smartphones for me. Every other phone feels puny now. It's amazing how fast I got used to the luxuriously large screen on the Note. I doubt I will ever buy a smaller phone again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BakaSenpai:
The only problem i have is the s pen. I use ezpdf for my annotations and i dislike how the pen can affect the screen when it's not even touching the screen. -_-;;
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
Sounds like you have a defective s-pen. The touch action and pressure sensitivity happens inside the pen instead of on the screen. When you touch the pen to the screen, the tip presses back inside on a pressure transducer that then sends the info to the screen wirelessly using inductive power it harvested from the screen. If your tip is stuck back into the pen, triggering the sensor, you'll be able to draw on the screen without the tip touching it. And the pressure sensitivity of your s-pen will be reduced. i.e. you won't have the full scale of sensitivity.

Some people have the problem when they're laying on their back and writing upside down, where gravity is a strong enough force to pull the tip into the pen, triggering the pressure transducer, and they get the same effect; writing without even touching the screen. If it bothers you, I'd have Samsung exchange your pen for one that's not defective.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] drharikumar:
I am having few problems with My galaxy note...

1. The noise reduction feature... its bugging me ... i have to switch it off each time for every calll.. else the caller doesn't hear anything.. : this started after myselfing update on air... may be a minor update... but its bugging me like hell

2. the Battery issue... its getting drained... like anything i charge it .. to 100% and it gets discharged... in about 08 - 10 hrs... and am not a power user , just phone calls and few mails....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PoisonWolf:
You have a rogue app causing this. I'm hitting 1 day and 23 hours in a single charge before I get to 10% battery life. This is my normal use with light games, texting, etc.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] micro17:
no disappointments here with my Note. With ICS it's even so snappy that you can use it ;). Only real thing is the display... Hate the white (glue?) Stripes at night. But get used to it...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
How to detect those rogue apps?

I have similar problem even worse - the battery can end within 6 hours, and I dont know why :confused:

I am walking with chargers - at home near comp, at bed (else I wake up to 70% left or less), living room, office desk and car :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PoisonWolf:
Check your battery usage and see what's using up most of your battery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
This is not helping me much :-(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PoisonWolf:
You're right, that says very little.

I can only guess a few things....

1) Is your phone's wifi set to disabled when screen is off? Check the advanced settings under your wifi settings.

2) Is your phone entering deep sleep?

3) Have you tried a hard reset or perhaps tried shifting to a stock LA4 rom?

If all of the above yields no results, perhaps you might have a faulty battery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] emignatius:
Install BetterBatteryStats.

This is a paid app if you install it through the android market but is made free for xda members by chamonix, the developer, through the link.

Read through that thread to learn how to properly save a complete log and then you can post your log there and other members can diagnose what apps are eating through your battery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
No, no and No :)

I actually have the screen off set to 10 minutes timeout, wifi is never sleeps so emails, skype etc always arrive.

Still I don't think that should drastically reduce my battery time.

Thanks! I am installing right now. Will see.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] drharikumar:
i have tried to know which app... but in vain

can u figure out the app... if i can share u the list of apps am using...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RogerPodacter:
Is this really how the spen works? So could you technically write on the screen without contact, just push in the tip?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] truelies1:
one problem is when use the back part is hot,not at battery position.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nposix:
Do not set screen off to 10 mins timeout. this will drain ur battery fast as ur phone will go to sleep until 10mins later.

That is why the Display has a higher percentage.

Set it to 1min, u should c some improvements.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
Maybe, but it is very comfortable to have it on for a long time without having to click buttons...

:-(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xvs1100:
love my note, only the cam could be better quality, but that's not what i expected when i purchased my note. at the moment i'm using touchpal dialer as standard dialer replacement, hackers keyboard (very nice in landscape mode).

btw: i heard that newest abyss v4.1 kernel is supporting bln, but haven't tested yet.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mr11:
very satisfied with my note...the problem only with me is the heat problem =)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smallgreenbear:
i am now very happy even on the ICS leak, the part i love most is the smoothness and nova launcher... :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Patanjali:
I turned off the auto adjust, and just set the brightness by touching the notification bar and sliding to the left to lower and the right to increase the brightness.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dotvoid:
very happy with my note, especially with the Xtra Lite Rom!

however the back and even the display scratch very easily :-/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] coolcrab:
I live in India and i got update for the software adding new keybord and several things. I updated my phone. After the update the prob i faced was that i was not able charge my phone and was unable to connect it to my pc. What i have to do to charge is that i have to connect the charger and restart my phone then it starts charging. Its been a week i am facing this prob. I called samsung service centre n they said me to factory reset first soft n then hard but my phone was acting same. N now customer support centre say that i have to go to the Samsung service centre.

Any idea any one?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Mister_Mxyzptlk:
Thursday, February 23, 2012

XDA Members:

Okay. Here's my frustration; and it's not a little one. The contact pins inside the SGN's SIM tray are entirely too easy to break. I've had my Note for well over a month now, and I really do like it. However, it's not the only phone I use. I also have a Galaxy S II Skyrocket, an iPhone 4S, and a Galaxy Tab 7.7.

Because of this, I use a micro-SIM and adapter so I can easily swap between devices. The only problem here is the "easily" part. While in the past it's been a piece of cake to swap the SIM out of an iPad and into an iPhone 3G using an adapter, the Skyrocket and the Note are no walk in the park. The Skyrocket simply will not accept a micro-SIM w/adapter; and if it does, removing the micro-SIM & adapter will damage the phone's SIM tray.

The Note is a somewhat different story. While the Note will accept a micro-SIM w/adapter, and it is also relatively easy to remove, it's not without it's faults. For example, if the micro-SIM accidentally slips out of the adapter when inserting it into the phone, the adapter will insert sans-SIM. While this in and of itself isn't a problem, removing the adapter will snag and break one or more of the SIM tray contact pins. Once this happens, chances are that your phone will no longer work. In my case, I was very lucky. Only one pin was damaged, and only partially damaged at that. I was able to bend the remainder of the pin up so that it could make contact with the SIM card.

Now, while my phone still needs to be repaired, I'm able to use it for the time being... or at least until I have to change the SIM card. Now in my case, it wasn't really that big of a deal. However, it could have been a lot worse; and for others on this forum, it was. So the only thing I can say about this problem is... "DON'T USE MICRO-SIM CARDS W/ADAPTERS ON THE GALAXY NOTE!" It's a recipe for disaster.

Thanks guys,

Ed
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sodadrinker77:
Email app

HI guys, my main issue with the note is the native email app doesnt allow me to cache my emails. Coming from having use blackberries for the last 5 years, ive ground accustomed to having easy access to my emails. So i was shocked when my emails disappeared once i cleared mails from server.

Am currently using K9 email app for the time being. Though ive found numerous limitations to it thus far.

Any recommendations ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
Yes. You can test it by using a piece of tape to pull the tip in and hold it in place. Or a strip of paper you use to pull the tip in and grip each side on the pen.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] drachers:
I love my Note, it is a worthy successor to the HD2. Needs a case to add grip due to the gloss finish, but we won't hold that against it.

However, capacitive buttons are evil. They really make the user experience awkward. In the short term I am going to cover mine in masking tape and hope I can find an app solution to mimick their functionality, for instance repurpose the volume controls.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bubblesmoney:
There are videos of the spen working on the note and other wacom digitiser devices without any contact. See explanation how it works on YouTube videos by thomypc. You do not need a contact for a wacom digitiser pen to work. It will work if you keep paper over the screen as well and my pen or screen is not faulty. It's just how it works. See the video mentioned for more details.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ocean2k:
Just one thing, the speaker is in the back and when i see movies its very low volume.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gent0r:
The note is a beatuiful device, the spen is just too small to get a good grip at.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] UncleManuel:
Jepp, not very ergonomically this tiny pen is. But there are lots of other capacitive pens out there... ;)

Speaker: Yeah, sometimes at games the fingers get in the way...

Lags: I figured out that scrolling noticeably more fluid when you set display animations to "some".

Ergonomics: Its a workout vor the left hand just to hold that huge device. If you got tiny hands you're screwed... :D :p

Ergonomics²: The USB-charger is very tough to get in & out. The smooth surface of the plug does'nt make it easier...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Romino_:
In general, im happy about my Note..

...but i updated it with OTA first time i haved it in my hand.

All things (did) look good.

The only thing i can complain about is batterytime.

Because this is my biggest phone i love it.

I was going to install apps that require root, so i start looking here for hacks.

It is easy to know what should and shouldn't been done :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] UncleManuel:
Ah yeah, disappointing sideeffect of the Note: My HTC HD2 appears TINY now... :eek: :D :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Romino_:
I agree, how the hell we manage with smaller phones :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
I know exactly how it works. If your pen is writing on the screen without touching it, it's defective; the tip is triggering the pressure sensor when it shouldn't be.

There's a coil in the pen that picks up energy inductively from the screen. The pen senses its position relative to the screen this way and is also powered by the picked up energy. It transmits its position back to the screen wirelessly with this energy. There's also a pressure sensor in the tip with 256 levels of sensitivity. This lets the pen know when it has contacted the screen, and how hard you're pushing. It transmits this information to the screen, also. If the pen's not touching the screen, the pressure transducer should not be reporting pressure and causing the screen to draw a line. That's common sense, and how most people's s-pens work. It will still know the position (if it's close enough), and could transmit this to the screen, allowing programmers to implement a "hover" effect, but the s-apps Samsung put on the Note don't have this functionality. They don't show the pen's position until the pressure sensor registers screen contact, then it registers as contact, as well as position.

If your pen is allowing you to draw on the screen without touching it, the pressure sensor inside of the pen is triggered, and depending on how hard the tip is stuck back into the sensor, your overall range of pressure sensitivity when you finally do touch the screen will be reduced in relation. Haven't you seen the examples of artwork people have done using the s-pen and s-memo app? Do you think they could've been that detailed if they couldn't control when the pen started drawing and stopped, because it started when the pen's coil was close enough to sense position and pick up enough power to transmit back to the screen, instead of when the pen actually touched the screen?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
How the hell did you manage without the forebear - the Dell Streak? :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Romino_:
I really needed to Google that words :p

Lets talk about beer instead, i send you a beer if you solve my problem :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Towserspvm2000:
So that's what it is! I thought I had put some apps on that weren't right for the Note, as I use a lot of apps that I had originally downloaded on my HD2, and had backed them up on the SD card for use on the Note. I noticed I would have a certain amount of apps on board, before it all started going pear-shaped.

Nice one!