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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] aftabbabar:
Here is how I fixed my usb port inside the note.

Seems like whenever I would disconnect my note from charger usb cord, the phone would think its still connected to the charger and actually discharge my phone. I tried cleaning with alcohol and nail polish remover with tooth brush. No positive results were achieved.

So here is what I did that fixed it for good.

Take a plastic fine screw driver or any sharp plastic strip that would go inside the usb port on the note. Now just push the usb pins (strip-inside the port) back. I mean to push the strip inside the usb port back and in a hard/forceful way, without damaging or bending anything inside. This has solved my problems and now I can connect and disconnect my usb cable for charging and for data transfer without any incidents or errors. Make sure the phone is off and battery is removed. Thanks god the note is working fine for now. I will still buy the usb port once it's available on ebay for a reasonable price.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] choicem2001@yahoo.co.uk:
My Galaxy note is driving me crazy. To begin, let me say I absolutely love my Note and I love it better than the AT&T version. Now my Note is rooted and I don't know if that is the very cause of my problem.

When I plug my note into my computer (and I have tried it with several computers), I get this message on the phone "USB connected, MTP connected." But either of two things happen on the computer. Either nothing happens at all or I get a message to this effect: one of the USB devices plugged to the computer has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it.

Basically my phone has been cut off from communicating with my computer. It charges alright, even when plugged into the computer, but that's the only communication that takes place between the two devices. I have changed all settings changeable - debugging, USB utilities, etc. I don't know what else to do.

I have done a hard reset a dozen times, yet with no luck. I took the phone out for repair. They did a quick inspection of the USB port and told me they did not think the port is broken; it seemed to be very much intact. I even would like to reinstall the stock firmware to see if that would fix the problem, but I am unable to do that because my phone would not communicate with any computer. Can I install the firmware from an SD card? Is there something else I can do?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] N1NJATH3ORY:
It sounds like your USB is messed up i had exactly the same problem on my galaxy s it would charge fine but USB mass storage mode would not work... Best thing you can do is take it back to the shop but you have a rooted phone you need to some how unroot it good luck dude
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeromepearce:
Have you tried selecting the message in the notification window? When I do that I get a green android page with a button saying 'connect for USB data transfer' or something. When I press it, the android goes orange and the PC finds my phone as a drive (or two, can't recall).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] leicashot:
Has anyone found a definitive solution to this or received and installed a new USB port circuit?

mine now only charges from an OFF position, then can turn on from there and it will continue to charge, otherwise if I plug it it and it's already on it won't charge
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] aftabbabar:
take out the battery and then take a fine plastic edge and push the usb pins (strip) back inside the usb port in the phone. this will fix the usb port and your problems will disappear.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] leicashot:
Worked!

Hey thanks very much I tried this and its now working! Many thanks, kris
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mfractal:
facing similar issues described in this thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1572668

i just ordered the Connector Charge Port Flex Cable For Samsung N7000 Galaxy Note i9220 from here :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Connector...Samsung-N7000-Galaxy-Note-i9220-/180772505164

@aftabbabar @leicashot - could you guys elaborate, what exactly i need to push and where ? :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] porcusor:
cleaning the port did it

Hey guys, I had the same problem a couple of months back:

I had my Note plugged in with my original Samsung charger and was playing a game. Suddenly it kept making sounds as if it was disconnecting/reconnecting to the charger. I moved to another outlet and still it kept disconnecting/connecting intermittently. I then used another charger with only 0.5a @5v and it charged OK, but I had the problem someone described earlier - when I unplugged the usb cord from the charger, the phone was still thinking it was charging. With the USB cable out of the charger, I then unplugged it from the phone, and it then stopped "charging". Note that the second charger used a "charge-only" usb cable, which I think doesn't have all the connectors connected.

The simplest solution that I saw on similar posts back then was to clean the port (which made very little sense to me). I took a tooth brush and cleaned the port really well. Then all of a sudden it kept charging with the original adapter and I still have no problems now, 3 months since then. Note that the phone still thinks it's charging if you use a "charge-only" cable and you unplug it from the charger. Since then I used only the original charger with the original cable and sometimes I used my laptop with the original cable to charge too. Still working perfectly. While some boards do have hardware faults, I'm glad to say mine had all the symptoms described here, but no hardware fault.

Cheers!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DADickinson1962:
I managed to resolved this problem by putting the phone into download mode and then flashing the PIT file with: Q1-20110914_16GB.pit via Odin...

Hopefully this helps someone as I have been trying to resolve this problem for weeks since I flashed my Note with ICS 4.0.3 everything is now working perfectly and my handset recognises the SD card again
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Grady Llwyd:
Many thanks to all

G'day all,

I got this problem on my phone today and it was driving me crazy considering how new it is and how careful I am with my phone.

After a bit of light reading and watching things on youtube I came across this thread which has provided both a stop-gap measure to get rid of the error and a fix to the problem (Samsung, if you ever pay attention to these forums - note that we need a solution, i.e. a robust USB port).

My thanks to all who contributed (buttons have been clicked).

Cheers,

Grady
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Might not be cleaned enought, use smaller brush :)

Edit: congrats on the cleanup
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
A cover for the usb whole as well as clean pockets should do the trick,

You might need to clean usb from charger also, and keep in clean environment.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Grady Llwyd:
quick update

Quick update for anyone interested.

I sent an email to Samsung asking about this type of problem and questioning their version of marketable quality, given that so many of us are suffering from this damned issue and the best that they can come up with is that I can send my phone in for a free repair (that most of us can do ourselves).

Frustrating much? They don't even have a registered tech in my city, so I have to send the bloody thing off for up to a month.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Hi,

I have a issue with my SGN (N7000).

Sometimes when I connect my phone to the wall charger, it starts to charge and it charges until it reaches the 100%, but other nights, it stops charging in a intermediate level.

when this occurs, the battery icon in the status bar shows the charging animation, but the battery isn't increasing the level (the system not shows any error message at all).

if disconnect and reconnect it works fine another time.

the charge is executed always fine if i power off the phone during the charge.

Not seems a hardware issue...

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mfractal:
I've got a new USB post assembly laying around here, if anyone needs pm me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] audia6:
White screen of death

Screen has gone white. Was charging it when i noticed it. Has happened before. Somehow went back to normal. Screen has been flickering faintly (ripple effect). I heard i could clean the lcd flex cable connector, located on the motherboard, with nail polish? Not sure though. I just ordered a new lcd/digitizer screen, so i know it cant be that.

Any suggestions
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
The Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus etc are Palmtop computers and we should stop calling them phones. Just because Apple call their Palmtop a phone doesn't make it one or that others should follow suit.

Tablets are not Palmtops either (unless you have very big hands) but Laptops without a keyboard which makes them more portable.

So the Note is not a phone or a phonblet but a Palmtop PC or simply a Palmtop.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
Palmtop computer = 5 syllables

Phone = 1 syllable

I know which I'm using.

People still call automobiles cars (short for horse drawn carriage). Languages are flexible and evolve and grow with us. If the other person gets the idea, that's what matters. Voice communication capability in an electronic device warrants the name phone in my opinion. The smart- prefix is what describes the computer aspect of them.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
Apple called their Palmtop the iphone (which is pronounced as two syllables like Palmtop) but it is still a Palmtop with a phone application. You might think the of iPhone as a phone but that is due to Apple brainwashing. I think of my Note as a Palmtop with a phone application and I expect most people do too.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] pjm77:
I'm pretty sure this will be a very hot topic in the lingustics forum...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
I don't usually think in words; more like concepts, images, emotions. I just use words for conveying information to others. I use whichever words most efficiently convey the making. Sometimes that even includes choosing words I, personally, feel are inaccurate, because I know they will work best with the other person's limited vocabulary. Such as answering "yes, it's like a mini iPad" (though in situations as extreme as that, I usually do follow up with a bit of a lesson. ;))

Sometimes I think of my device as mass of highly processed and patterned mineral extracts, interconnected with a metallic web of smelted ores, wrapped in layers of polymerized refinement products of dinosaur material dug from within the earth's crust after millions of years of conditioning from heat and pressure, which converts electrochemical energy into various other forms including sonic air reverberations and electromagnetic radiation in the visible and radio spectrum, based upon a combination of my tactical input and reception of faint electromagnetic radiation in the radio spectrum.

But if I were talking to you I'd probably just abbreviate it to palmtop with phone application so you'd understand.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
It ought to be a hot topic because it is time for people to stop calling their Palmtops phones and forget the Apple brainwashing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
If I were talking to you or anyone else I would describe the Note as a Palmtop with a phone application rather than a phone with a computer application, which makes more sense.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] pjm77:
I would still call it a phone because the phone function is the most important one for me. I wouldn't buy the Note if it didn't work as a phone even if it came with retractable back-scratcher and inflatable woman.

I'm not so sure about this apple brainwashing part, I vaguely recall Windows Mobile phones being called phones before that.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DeRock13:
What's wrong with Tricorder?

Sent from Steve Jobs' iPhone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
The name given to a device is important and should best describe what it does otherwise it is misleading. So the Note, Nexus, Atrix, iphone etc are best described as a Palmtops rather than phones because of their multiple applications. So, for Apple to call their Palmtop a phone is a name which is both misleading and inaccurate.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
I bought a smartphone, if you want to call it a palmtop

that is fine with me, but stop trolling. I am sure when you

don't know where it is, you ask your wife if she's seen your

palmtop with phone application lying around somewhere.......

Some ppl just got nothing useful to do for killing time.

And as another user mentionned before, HTC made smartphones

before Apple even dreamed about iphones
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] foxmeister:
Semantics!

It's a computer and a phone, which we typically call a smartphone - pure and simple.

What makes "palmtop" any better than "smartphone"?

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Richy99:
its a phone, end of, nothing to do with what apple calls them its something that YOU seem to have a bee in your bonnet opver and have designated to wanting it to be called nothing more nothing less

there is point trying to get people to call it a palmtop instead of a phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
Palmtop is easier to say than smartphone and has the advantage of being a more accurate description. You can call your Palmtop a phone or smartphone but companies are legally obliged to avoid names which are misleading.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bamboo12:
every man and his dog thinks he invented english.. are you the man or the dog, and wtf is a palmtop computer?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chancer63:
I say Phablet: PHone + tABLET.

CU

Gesendet von meinem GT-N7000 mit Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
A Palmtop is a computer which fits in your palm as opposed to a laptop which is a computer that fits on your lap
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jah:
I just call it "fantastic" :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bamboo12:
oooo.. so it actually should be called a palmtop computer phone, because computers can't make phone calls
[Xoom General] integramodder:
So is the google server backup option not enabled by google yet? My option is grayed out...
[Xoom General] integramodder:
Pic:
[Xoom General] b8892778:
My option is grayed out too
[Xoom General] ShonkUK:
mine is working
[Xoom General] crisisinthecity:
Did you setup your Google account? If so, you probably forgot to check the box then. You set it up. Mine is the ota. Shows my gmail addy.
[Xoom General] RMerlin:
What ROM are you running? If you are running a custom ROM, then you need to run an EOS ROM newer than Nightly 42, use the V9 version of GoogleBackupTransport, and use adb to set it as the default one.

However if you run Motorola's ROM, it should work out of the box, unless you are moving between different ROMs without wiping your device to factory default.

EDIT: I saw on your screenshot that you are indeed running EOS. Keep an eye on the EOS thread, I posted instructions there on how to get Google Backups working.
[Xoom General] integramodder:
Is there something similar to ad block for the Xoom as there is for iPhone in cydia?

I searched but didn't find anything relevant.
[Xoom General] omac_ranger:
Root required obviously, but this app has always worked for me on any android device.

Adfree Android
[Xoom General] integramodder:
You da man!

Working on ICS TOS nightly 38
[Xoom General] Tiger62651:
I use this also its awsome
[Xoom General] Lothaen:
ooh ad block for iphone - I think my lovely wife would like this on her phone...
[Xoom General] bucketmouth:
use adfree...it works amazing!!
[Xoom General] LexLuger82:
Good ****
[General Questions and Answers] umirin:
why would you get anti virus on your phone. I have never heard of anyone being hacked on there phone.

the only reason I can see it is if you do online banking.

avast (which I use on my computer) just said they released an android av app.

who hacks phones? lol.
[General Questions and Answers] justan00b:
Antivirus like Lookout scans all your apps on your phone, if you ever install any 3rd part apps that you didn't get from the Market, might be useful.. then again, don't know how reliable the AV scanner really is scanning apps, or how it works.
[General Questions and Answers] red12355:
Not worth it imo. Be smart about what you install and you'll be fine.
[General Questions and Answers] xstokerx:
takes up to much system ram and cpu for me kills battery faster
[General Questions and Answers] kindley:
nod 32 is a prettly good antivirus
[General Questions and Answers] ledlauzis:
Agreed! And if you know what you are doing and you have disabled option "Install Applications From Unknown Sources" in setting there are really tiny chance to get viruses.

But if you have risen this question then more likely you need Antivirus
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Actually, due to no market security, most of androids viruses go on the market.
[General Questions and Answers] tejrl:
I feel that Google would clamp down faster than these antivirus companies if a virus were to arise.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Viruses on android are currently increasing exponentially...
[General Questions and Answers] slapshot30:
Don't download anything stupid and you'll be fine. Make sure and check what exactly the app is accessing.
[General Questions and Answers] Android-UK:
Agreed. I do use the odd off the Market download, but I always read the comments from others and also check what permissions it wants. Better same then sorry.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
That's great advice for the power user, but the average user is going to say, "Free guitar hero? Awesome! *download*. The important thing to remember is that we're oftentimes more capable than the target audience. My Grandma still believes she's the one-millionth visitor.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
What is all this "we" stuff? There is no such thing as a "power user" with a Lumia...
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Incessant, off-topic trolling even when I'm not pinpointing the flaws in your OS. Please try to stay on topic.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
Well stop talking down on the average user when in fact that is what you are. The average user knows to a point what to download and what not to download. Is it really a surprise that "sexy girl puzzle" might be malicious? Any user can figure that out.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
My platform of choice does not make me an average user. You've contributed absolutely nothing to any conversation, something at least the other people who dislike me do, and see yourself as higher purely based on your choice of platform. At least when I do what one might consider, "trolling." I make a point and attempt to remain on topic.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
Did you not see the point that the average user knows what to download and not to download? Plenty of my friends are "average users" and have never gotten a virus on their cell phone. Is that enough of a point?
[General Questions and Answers] Crashdamage:
Antivirus for Android is pointless. There are NO Android viruses. Don't think of Android in Windows terms. It's not Windows and so does not have the same vulnerabilies as Windows.

Antivirus companies depend on the fear and ignorance of their customers. Companies peddling antivirus for Android (or Linux) should at least be honest that it is only useful for scanning files to be transferred to Windows machines.

This doesn't mean there is no Android malware - there is. And a virus is a type of malware. But not all malware is a virus.

Sent from HTC G2
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
The free guitar hero app got a couple hundred thousand and the viruses are ever-increasing.

---------- Post added at 08:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

So, the point is that you feel they should change the name from virus scanner to malware scanner?
[General Questions and Answers] Jenesis:
There are a lot of application tht can steal your phone information something like spywere and can compromise phone performance ... but anyway if you take care of what app you install in your phone is hard to take viruses or malicius software ... imo you don't really need an anti virus for phone device
[General Questions and Answers] groves226:
There are malicious apps, and malicious code, and there are security holes.

All those scanners are really doing (pay version needed for some features) is

1: they will warn you about privacy concerns (that sound board does not need access to contacts/sms/phone state)

2: if they have a signature on any malicious code they will alert you if you install an app with it

3: remote phone wiping and other security features

4: preventing some of the low hanging fruit in the security game.. but only if yu allow them/pay for the app

There is stuff out there, just because you haven't ever heard of it does not mean it does not exist, you just haven't heard of it. To say it is impossible or unlikely is also short sighted.

If you think it is that unlikely, go to Vegas this summer during DEFCon and walk around with bluetooth and wifi on.... hell walk around with them off and your phone NOT in airplane mode.
[General Questions and Answers] Crashdamage:
The point is exactly what I said - read it again. There are NO Android viruses and antivirus companies should be honest about what they can and cannot do.

Sent from HTC G2
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
can you share your definition of virus? I lumped the two together.
[General Questions and Answers] Crashdamage:
Search Wikipedia for 'computer virus'.

Sent from HTC G2
[General Questions and Answers] umirin:
what will walking around with bluetooth do? my bluetooth is disabled 24/7.

also thanks for all the insight. I only download from the market and known apps so I think I will pass for now.
[General Questions and Answers] Allen`:
I downloaded Anti Virus couple of times, it was just useless.
[General Questions and Answers] Wixej:
My purely opinion viruses there is but very little if the program places from reliable sources such as market the probability of catching the virus drops to 0
[General Questions and Answers] ingar195:
Hack

i use avg antivirus
[General Questions and Answers] شیرخدا:
After reading this thread it seems that people are only writing opinions that while plausible are unsubstantiated and others with experience are only mentioning very obvious like don't download non market apps etc. Now I don't want belittle any ones contributions but I was wondering if there is anyone out there that has gotten a virus (or malware) or that has any stat's and figures from reliable sources on this topic.

Just to share my experiences so far, as the android market is accessible I have had to resort to 3rd party app stores and at times have been less than careful with the apps that I install till now (thank god) I have not gotten a virus, and to make that point a little more reliable till very recently I have an anti-virus installed.

Now I'm pretty sure that after posting this I may end up getting a virus and answering my own question. If I do for the sake of completeness I will post again.
[General Questions and Answers] Uppy:
Firstly to the guy who says there are "NO viruses" on android I really think you're splitting hairs between virus and malware, they are both malicious and we know there is malicious software for android, it was on the news last year.

At the end of the day, most AV apps are free and should anyone ever be nerdy enough and malicious enough to create a virus, isn't it best to be safe that sorry? The best offence is a good defence.