[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bubblesmoney:
i agree some of the screen scratch iisues seem to be with some coating on the screen. i have had mine since about the 7th of jan and had several issues most of which i have managed to sort out on my own bumbling about and trial and error. no thanks to lack of a pdf guide or trouble shooting guide from samsung that should have come with the phone. even ****ty phones come with a booklet and this costly one doesnt even come with an electronic booklet installed on the phone, f****** ridiculous.

anyway getting back to the coating on the screen, a day or two before i got the flip case i though my screen was scratched and a scratch like mark was obvious to see on one part of the screen and wouldnt go on cleaning. On a log shot after reading elsewhere about the coating being scratched rather than the screen i just rubbed my hand on my oily face (!!! after a long day at work) and rubbed that part of the scratched screen and voila the scratch seems to have disappeared and no longer visible even after wiping that part again and again. This by no means says the glass cant get scratched but might explain most of the cases. Just a guess.

USB OTG isnt dependable in my experience over the last 20 days and i have been using USB OTG for a few years on my archos now which is reliable as ever even now. Just yesterday i tried plugging in a samsung galaxy s2 into my note using the otg cable and a samsung data cable and the s2 said mtp and note said unrecognised device! Blasted thing cant recognise stuff when all the links and devices i used were samsung manufactured. same goes for a 32gb sandisk microsdhc card i inserted into a sandisk card reader which i plugged into the note which didnt load the device. my archos and laptop have no problems recognising same reader. even with devices that i ahve been successful, sometimes later it doesnt recognise the same device.

three of my htc chargers dont work on the note, another car charger doesnt work either.

like the flip cover as my phone fell out from hip height when bending down and fell on hard floor screen face flat on floor hard enough to disloadge the flip cover from the device and push out the spen from the device, but phone was fine and the screen was fine too! phew! another time fell onto a metal bar screen edge hit the metal bar but screen survived thankfully. i hate screen savers and cases so am happy with the flip case.

the apps2sd move is buggy on the device and was causing all my crashes, which i initially thought was the sd card or some apps. after many days of crashing sometimes non stop for 7-8hours and somedays nonstop for 3hours! even after taking new sd card the same problem arose. even after deleting apps and installing them 3-4 times over for about 300apps the same problems were arising repeatedly. as a last straw before sending the phone back i decided to try out a theory of mine that the apps2sd move on the device is buggy. i noted many apps that are supposedly moved arent moved properly as many showed a 4kb or 8kb on device which wasnt logical as many of the apps were 20-70mb, so figured some improperly loaded app was causing the crashes. what i was doing repeatedly was i was installing all my old apps in rapid sequence which the phone wasnt able to handle. i was out of internal emmory within a few hours of getting the device and was getting low internal memory alerts like on my old htc desire. problem was my sd card was full so couldnt transfer apps to sd card so when internal memory went down to about 200mb then phone lags and at about 190mb it gets seriously screwed, which was a shock coming from the htc desire which only had 147mb available for apps to begin with and with old firmware could load apps and work without issues till about 5mb was free but after 2.2 update couldnt work below 15mb free. so was surprising that the note suffers problems after 190mb was left free. so got rid of loads of stuff.

anyway when loading apps to sd card you need to do it slowly compared to my old htc desire!!!! on my desire i would just use apps2sd move pro and in rapid sequence move all purchased apps to sd card without issues. but doing the same on the note screws up things!!!! (atleast in my case). many times when moving tens of apps in rapid sequence the note screws up repeatedly!!! sometimes saying failed to move etc or most times does not say but it is proessing the data and doesnt show the after-move size of app. i would ignore that and go back and start moving other apps, same repeated till i got through almost my 280-300apps about half of which i guess i could move to sd. so as a last ditch decided to do the sd move slowly and wait for each app to move and wait again till settings showed post move app size, then would go back and move another app in same sequence. since i did the slow move process (which i didnt have to do on even my old htc desire x 2) things have been fine on my note and no more crashes even though same sd card and same apps. so for people having crashes and phone going hot, i think there is a problem with the sd move being handled by the phone and so do the move for each app slowly and individually as this phone cant seem to handle rapid app moves to sd card in sequence.

i have loads of teaching videos on my phone and other videos as well but sometimes the stock video player shows thumb nails on one video and when i clik that another video in another folder plays. annoying when i try to show a teaching video at work when my daughetrs video playing comes up on the screen instead. happened with a few other videos like that a few times. but press the same thumb nail again and the original video plays without issues, so bizzaire and not always reproducible.

the stock file manager is slow (very) compared to a few free file managers from the market.

but over all pleased with the phone and screen and hopefully all the probs have been resolved for me and wont have to return the phone.

ps: how does one use my vouchers for 120£ from samsung for 7digital and samsung movies. i cant seem to find a place to feed the vouchers on 7digital app and samsung movies website is having probs registering my account for last 2 hours. any pointers anyone on how to use my free vouchers from samsung.