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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sameer.gupta:
what about the issue of menu/back button not working after a call..

please help me how to resolve tht issue?

should i take it to samsung care? is it an issue with the phone..or some setting can help me overcome it
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ChodTheWacko:
I read somewhere that statistics show that statistics are basically worthless.

It was written as a joke, but it's true that without complete sample data, any conclusions are pretty subjective.

If you ask 10 people if they had problem X, and they all did, it's still possible that the next 1000 don't.

Unlikely, but who knows. In the end you can only report on stuff you know about. The general rule though is that people who are happy generally do their own thing, and the majority of online comments are the unhappy people making noise.

It's been discussed in other threads, but some of the stuff you indicated happen with all Notes. If they exchanged their Notes with the intention of getting those resolved, that's a hopeless cause. With some of the others, I'd be highly surprised if they reoccurred.

As far as what you want to do when you purchase the Note, assuming you can try before you buy,

the answer is actually quite simple:

Go into the test menu by entering *#0*# at the dialer, and run through all the sensor/screen tests.

Note for some reason the 'dimming' test has "banding".

Make sure you use the stylus correctly i.e.:

1) Hold it at a writing angle (20-45 degrees, like using a pencil)

2) Have the settings -> pen set to the right hand, or you'll have a left/right offset.

3) Hold it in your hand at first so all the gyros know what's going on. This is the quickest test.

If it still acts odd, try rebooting before the test.

Then call some people, including using your headset if you have one.

It's unfortunate that there are quirks and glitches, but that's the way it goes.

There's never a piece of perfect technology - so you just have to pick something where you get the best overall experience.

Thanks for the compliments on the FAQ - it's nice to try to contribute back to the community in some way.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
Blotchy grays.

Blotchy backgrounds on Angry Birds.

Application Grid View not alphabetized (but List View is) - how IS it organized, and WHY? Every other Android phone I've used has Applications alphabetized!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] marcel234:
I realy like this phone:) i have no problems. The only thing i "hope" for is that samsung release android 4.0 soon to this phone, that will make this phone realy finischt:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
Takes a couple seconds for screen to come back on after pulling phone away from ear when on a call.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Blotchy greys seems to be a OLED limitation, I havent seen any OLED device with really good greys.. LCD's even TN can render greys pretty well.

For the application sorting, get an app called AppZort, it works on the S1,S2 and G-nNote.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Darrius777:
MMS

I hate the crappy mms messages that the phone sends. Emailing them is fine though.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] OakNinja:
One of the best posts ever on XDA! Everyone should read this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kwenteen:
I love my Note...

The only annoying things are :

the background of S memo is cut with regular horizontal bands because I changed the DPI, so I can't see clearly what I'm sketching

3G Video call no more on full screen, still because of modified DPI,

So it's not entirely note's fault, It is not optimized for lower value of lcd density... (240) :o

The only real thing that is from stock rom :

The delay for the screen to get on when pushing the power button or detecting with the proximity sensor... :mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lacrimadisangue:
My note has these problems:

- unresponsive when charging

- sometimes parts of the screen are unresponsive

- delay when the screen turn on

- phone is lagging sometimes

- proximity sensor lag

- the light sensor sometimes doesn't change the luminosity but seems that the screen flashing from white to yellowish and viceversa

But...

Also S2 (i've read something some months ago) had some "youth problems. I'm sure that samsung will fix most of this little problems :)

ps. sorry 4 my english ^_^
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] 5150Joker:
I've got the same issues except the charging one, mine charges and responds fine. Everything else is similar though. Hopefully a firmware update fixes those minor problems.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] avetny:
delay when the screen turn on- is not issue! !!!!!!!!!!!

Its calling "deep sleep" ....Samsung made this **** to safe ur battery ......

with out deepsleep u will cry about battery drain.

Best regards.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
It's not about deep sleep, other phones go to sleep and open up with no delay. It's a bug that's caused by the weather app, the delay goes away when you toggle the weather off.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sid_cowabunga:
Well. Firstly the lag. My HTC Desire HD was way smoother. Secondly my touchwiz starts crashing as soon as I install more than 150 apps. I have already replaced my a note because of this but the new piece is giving me the same problem. Also when touchwiz starts crashing I restart the phone. However on restart it just keeps restarting in a loop until I remove the battery and my memory card. Also I noticed that the note was perfectly snappy until I started moving applications to sd card. Now it lags and has that restart problem. Anyone know a solution?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
Sounds like you need to keep it at or below 149 apps... ;)

Ha ha, seriously though, what do you do with so many apps?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sid_cowabunga:
Oh cummon what's the use of a 1.4 ghz dual core if it can't handle apps. -_- I also hate the fact that they delete all the "XT9 my words" on reboot.

Also has anyone come up with a mod which enables the touch sensitive buttons to blink on a notification?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
Many apps are poorly written and if you install 150 of them that are all trying to update themselves, display ads, read your personal info and send it to home base at the same time, I can see a top notch mobile processor choking. Even a desktop PC would have problems.

Yes, there's an app or two for using the capacitive buttons for notifications. I don't know them off hand, though. Some people use NoLED for the same purpose, using just a few pixels of the amoled screen.

I still wonder how someone could actually utilize 150 apps...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
The stock keyboard sucks anyway, the market has several alternatives that are way better. As to the other problem you kind of said it yourself:

So it seems the apps either weren't properly moved to the sdcard, something went wrong when moving them to the sdcard or then the sdcard is faulty. I know this will be a pain but you need to find if it's just one app or several that are doing this when moved to the sdcard and you need to narrow down the culprits by moving them one by one until the problems occur again.

Backlight Notification is the only app I know that does this and it needs to be supported by the kernel. I'm afraid I don't know any kernels for the Note yet that support this or is the app developer even working on this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ChodTheWacko:
On android, it's really easy. I have some crazy number too but more like 300. There are a bunch of stuff that I've only used once. There are a bunch of apps I haven't used but I could have used in the past. Then add Widgets and programs to tweak settings, etc. They add up in a hurry.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RashaMatt:
check the speed of your sdcard - SD Tools free from the market.

Also use an app like Gemini App Manager or Autostarts to cut back on all the apps doing their initialization on boot.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Wake up delay seems to be a little longer than the Galaxy S1 and S2, anyway to speed this up w/o sacrificing deep sleep ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
Well. only 2 days that I have it, but I can already say few things:

1) Power, Volume buttons are too sensitive - impossible to hold it in left hand in both orientations, without pressing buttons accidentally! its very annoying! :mad:

I cant understand how none of the Reviews mentioned this problem.. everyone is focused on testing minute unimportant things instead of functionality and ergonomics.

2) Stylus is not sensitive enough - as a user of Dell Latitude XT2 to write down during lectures, I am not used to apply so much pressure to it to write.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rigurat:
I've been using Nokia phones since the beginning, my last phone was the Nokia N900. The Note is my first non-Nokia phone and (duh!) my first Android phone.

It's funny how for such a technologically advanced phone, the G-Note is missing several important things the N900 which is 2 years old has.

1. No stereo loudspeaker

2. No LED indicator light

3. No dedicated lock/unlock key

4. No dedicated camera button

5. Only 16GB of internal memory!! The N900 has 32 GB, and it came out 2 years ago!

No infrared port? The N900 has it, not much use nowadays, and I know it's obsolete but I was hoping there would be some sort of Android app of a universal remote control for my TV, DVR, cable box, etc.

Had to be a PenTile matrix, and no 1700 MHz band.

It would be nice for future phones to have this, new phones should start implementing Micro USB 3.0. Not only for faster transfer rates, but for faster charging as well. USB 3.0 can deliver more POWER!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] silvacrest:
as far as i know no android phone has come with 32GB memory plus a micro sd card expansion slot

im just grateful that sammy didnt pull a sensation XL and give us 16GB internal storage with no possibility of SD card expansion, same goes for the galaxy nexus and other nexus devices
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] eksasol:
N900 was an amazing phone and one of its kind, I don't think there'll be another one like it because it gives consumers too much freedom, you are comparing Android to a full fledge Debian OS. That whole dream died along with Nokia after they made the deal with Microsoft, and I'm not interested in Meego with its current state.

You might look at Motorola offering though, it have some docking system to allow it to use Firefox, some of their phones have stereo speakers and good durability. I don't think any recent top Motorola model support TMobile 3G bands (otherwise I'd get one).

As for dedicated lock button, I don't think that's necessary, its equivalent of pressing the Power button.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dscline:
That, IMO, is one of the bigger missing features. Stereo in itself isn't that big of a deal for my use, but generally phones with two speakers have more output. Even my old AT&T Tilt2 has dual speakers, and has a very good speakerphone because of it. My Galaxy Tab 10.1 has stereo speakers, and has very good output. It's a shame that wasn't carried over to the Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LordManhattan:
- No LED notification
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jlarsson1978:
- Laggy interface when using custom launchers

- Temporary slowdowns without explanation

- Slight lag when drawing with the S-pen

Other than that it´s a magnificent piece of equipment!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
Arent there applications that use the backlit back and menu buttons as LED notification lights?

I remember something like that for my old Dell Streak, I am sure there is something already written to utilize these 2 buttons across all the Galaxy phone series.

Anyone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] motumbo:
I am really concerned about the screen glass quality. I'm coming from Samsung Infuse which also had Gorilla Glass and after 6 months of heavy use, screen had not even a tiny scratch. 4 days using Note and I have a huge, deep scratch and four of tiny ones. This is not Gorilla Glass for me it could be a sort of cheap imitation.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
Impossible, Gorilla Glass is a trademark of Korning, the company who invented it.

Samsung couldnt use the trademark without lawsuits from Korning, and customers for misleading.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] iCatchU:
Any idea why NoLED doesn't work on Galaxy Note? Any alternate apps?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rigurat:
Nokia phones have always been the most customizable phones ever, both inside and out. The N900 was indeed unique, the only phone were not only did you have permission to hack it, but Nokia was practically begging you to hack it. The only phone I know of that offers root access right out of the box!

Nokia usually allows users to customize the function of its hardware buttons, having an extra set of buttons around would be nice.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ChodTheWacko:
NoLED works fine for the most part on the Note. I've used it for weeks.

I've had an odd lockup every now and then, but not sure it's related.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
SIM card removal nearly impossible.

Hard to find the button on the stylus - would help a lot if it was indented, and a contrasting color.

Setup for MMS and good HSDPA/HSUPA for AT&T is a royal pain, and MMS attachments appear to be limited to 175K.

Battery drain is as rapid as any other powerful smartphone. Can't say that that is surprising, given the processor and display, but reviews lead one to believe that it should be better.

Here's a big one: SIM card on my Note is nearly impossible to remove without inflicting damage to the card. Seems like something inside is latching onto the card somehow.

~~ Despite all the niggling complaints, overall I love the Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
Hmm... The Note's battery is better than that of any smartphone I've used since before making the jump to smartphones with the HTC wizard. I'm currently on day 2 of a battery charge, and it's 11pm. I forgot to plug it in last night but it's still going strong.

I really wish the power button was on top, as directly opposite the volume buttons makes it difficult to hit without hitting the volume.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] n0thingr3mains:
menu and back button stop working sometimes after a phone call requiring a reboot
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tdodd:
Usage pattern is a huge influence. Right now my Note is at 43% after 2 days 15 hours. According to the history shown by Battery Monitor Widget it's been at 43% for the last 3 hours, which would extrapolate to dropping only 8% per day on Standby, giving 12 days of standby time. Sure, if you use it hard it's going to drop fast, but all in all I find the battery life to be very good and the larger battery allows it to at east match other smartphone devices for endurance, if not beat them (all).

I'm a light user anyway, but I help the phone further by not having loads of data hungry widgets or apps (weather, Facebook, email etc.) constantly seeking information and I turn off WiFi and data when not required, which is most of the time. I don't use Bluetooth at all. If your phone is on an incessant trawl for data then even your standby performance may not be great. Mine is exemplary, and I'm quite happy with the performance while in active use too. :)

I did have a scare, for a while, when I was dropping around 3% per hour on standby. That was following a suspiciously unsuccessful attempt to use a couple of USB thumb drives with an OTG coupler. One turned out to be formatted as NTFS and the other was S3 password protected. I don't know what went wrong with the phone, but I could see no cause for the rapid drain - just the drain itself. No wakelocks, no high CPU, just a diminishing battery. Even a reboot or two didn't fix it and I ended up performing a factory reset. Touchwood everything is back to normal once more.

Push it in for a sprung click release. Don't try to pull it out directly.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Cant render greys as good as LCD monitors or phones that use regular LCD.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
On my note (rooted kk9) launcher pro is fast but I have a lag when scrolling btwn sreens. I mean when I swype left or right, the destop is not moving immediately.

Opening app drawer animation is very laggy and jerky. I had to set speed to 10 to avoid this. I don't have those on my Archos A70 tablette and its kind of slow (1ghz) single core cpu.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Are you using a livewallpaper?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
SIM card sticking

That works for the SD card, but not for the SIM card. The SIM card will slide out a little ways and then catches and will not slide further. I will have to take tweezers or fine pliers to pull it out, and I am concerned about possible damage to the contacts on the phone itself.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] avetny:
galaxy s II got also "deep sleep" even on Cyanogen.......if you telling it's weather than we talking about diff problem.

-No LED notification

"BLN" -support coming soon in kernels
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tdodd:
Oops, sorry. I ought to try reading properly before replying. My SIM can be removed easily - I assumed the problem was with the micro SD card.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
No. Just a still image.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] qazzi76:
Same here - this is the first phone I had to buy a screen protector for.

---------- Post added at 11:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 PM ----------

This is very interesting and true...

Weird how technological progress feels like 1 step forward but 2 steps back sometimes...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gazzz:
I hate not having a trackball anymore (can't scroll or hold 'left mouse button' while Gmote-ing)

I hate not having notification LEDs

I hate Touchwiz, and how long the screen takes to turn on / return to home after pressing the home button

Why is the home button a hard button anyway?

--------------------------------------------------------------

Love the camera

Love the screen

Love the audio

Love the power

Love the stylus (it's not a fsking S-Pen)

Love the battery life
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
Having the home button as a hard key allows you to use it to wake the device. Pretty handy. I agree with you, though, the delay is frustrating. The home button delay is due to the voice control app; it waits to see if you're doing a double tap to invoke voice control. I wish someone would make a simple app or fix to disable this and make home button responsiveness immediate.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] eksasol:
I am going to repeat myself, but its worth repeating, that is to be careful about pulling out the SIM, especially microSIM with adaptor. The pins in the sim slot for my GSII were very fragile and broke, had to get the slot replaced by Samsung for a decent cost. I have no reason to doubt the one in the Note is the samething after watching the teardown video.

I prefer the sim slot style where it has a flap to fold down to lock the sim, but I guess its cheaper for them to use the sliding type.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] alcuin:
I really wish it had a notification led, after using the Atrix. If the capacitive backlight kernel plugin works, then this will be a non-issue.

NFC would have been nice. Then it would be at feature-parity or greater with Galaxy Nexus.

I'll probably be castrated for this one, but could they have put in a bigger battery? Compared with the size of the Droid Razr, it seems they should have had plenty of space to add a bigger battery.

The curved sides are too slick without a case or cover.

And browser text reflow needs to be fixed.

Don't get me wrong, this is the best phone ever. I just want to see Samsung make it perfect. I love the screen, love the camera. Inductive stylus works so much better than a capacitive one. Biggest capacity battery on an android phone yet. All they need to do is make a few adjustments, at least half of which could be done in software, and these things will dominate all other phones.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] titus1:
Whats disappoints with the Note is the color banding and gradient of the display.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ChodTheWacko:
Actually, I agree with you on this one. I was hoping for a battery that was tall, wide, but fairly thin. That way extended batteries could greatly increase the capacity of the battery without adding much thickness.

- Frank

---------- Post added at 05:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:34 PM ----------

Strange, mine is quite easy, no harder than my other phones.

I've pulled it out lots of times.

- Frank
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Software issue mainly but makes you think twice that such a display is ruined by color depth usage.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
What are you talking about?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Read what I quoted thats what Im taking about.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
"...ruined by color depth usage."

Care to explain?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rigurat:
Now that I've had my G-Note for a week I'm starting to nitpick the issues.

My previous phone is the Nokia N900 and the G-Note is my first non-Nokia and therefore first Android phone. The N900 came out 2 years ago, that's about 3 generations in the cellphone world. At the rate cellphones are advancing, 2 years is an eternity.

First, charging the Galaxy Note seems to take an eternity! I know it has a big battery so Samsung should have provided a more powerful charger. The N900 charger is 1200mA.

The way this phone handles multitasking doesn't seem to be as advanced as the N900. No application thumbnail view.

The G-Note is more difficult to customize than the N900. Even something as simple as removing or changing the camera shutter sounds or changing the function of the hardware buttons requires rooting the device. The N900 allows this stuff right out of the box.

It seems the Note doesn't have an FM transmitter.

Still love my G-Note!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
Just have a regular SIM in it, so I can't imagine how/why it is hanging up in there. I don't want to mess with it until I really have to.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376196,00.asp

@Topic

The faint horizontal lines seems to be getting quite annoying when watching animated films :/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
Adding a widget is a PITA because you have to horizontally scroll through a single line of icons at the bottom. Why not a whole page of widget apps showing?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Thats how TouchWiz manages widgets.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LordManhattan:
Bingo! I've said for weeks now it's the software, but people believe what they want to believe. I wish more people would check that article out so we don't need to explain it over and over again. Maybe you should add it to your signature. I'm not joking this time :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Carmageddon1984:
Thanks for the link, now I know its only SW problem :) for a moment thought I'd missed something important...

However, I have found one major issue (SW as well...) with the phone's design:

S Memo application does not lock out the Back/Menu buttons when using Pen!

Each time my palm rests on the lower part of the phone, I usually end up clicking back (I am right handed).

This is very annoying - I am also using Convertible Tablet Dell Latitude XT2, where even Dell was smart enough to disable the capacitive touch input as when the pen is near the screen!

Anyone has any solutions to this? Does Samsung have any way to receive feedback/bug reports from the customers? hopefully they fix it in ICS release or further updates to S Memo.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Viamonte:
Ah, the misfortunes of early adoption.