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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mcreego:
Hi to all,

I want to share with You just a quick reflection on Samsung quality control and assistance.

In my company I have 3 Sgs, 5 Sgs II, A Galaxy Tab 7 and a Galaxy Note.

Sadly, every single product have some defect.

Speaking particularly for the screens, the first sgs have all some annoying burn in effect, one have even the flickering screen because of the interference to the screen caused by wifi/data mobile module on the screen itself, the Sgs II are note better, ever single screen has different temperature and two are completely yellow and less sharp then the others making reading nearly impossiblenot to mentio here too burn in effect visible on dark background and at the end the Galaxy Note shows no true black, bad gamma calibration, black clipping on videos...

So if the amoled, superamoled, superamoled plus tecnology is so immature why they continue to market it and when you go to a reparation center they say that they don't see any problem with the screen refusing to make the reparation or the substitution of the screen?

I wrote a lot of letter and email to Samsung asking for reparation but only 1 time they recognized the fault on the screen and replaced it.

I bought my Note 2 month ago and when I realised that the screen was ****ty I went to the shop where I bought it asking for a replacement and they said to me that the screen was perfect so since they never see any fault on my products they never repair or replace them in warranty.

Not to make a comparison but I have also, 2 Iphone 4s and 2 Iphone 4, Ipad, Ipad 2, Imac, Macbook Pro and MAcbook Air and when I had a problem with these products I had always received a good customer assitance.

Home button become unresponsive in Iphone 4: they replace it in warranty, Screen of Ipad II and Macbook Pro present light bleading of the Lcd pannel: they replaced 4!!!times in warranty until it was perfect.

Macbook air's keyboard become creapy, the replace it in warranty.

Im not an Apple fanboy and I hate their closed os politic but I hacve to admit that when I faced a problem they were there to help me.

Samung leftme alone.

Their repair centres are ridicolous, operator of the phone assistance unprepared and they never answer to questions...only standard replies.

It seems to me to talk to anyone.

I love Android world, custom roms, kernel, overclocking, undervolting, cm, miui atc etc... but producers of the phones and tablets do not match.

Bad assistance, slow updates and products that without xda guys comes to market with a lot of bugs and problems:mad:

Sorry for the outburst, I just want to inform many who are in my conditions that they are not alone:D and that we all should complain with Samsung for its scandalous post assitance service and quality control of the products.

Sorry for my bad English,

Just my 2 cents;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] leafsacc:
+1. I read about this too. This is the risk I knew when I bought my second Samsung phone. Maybe try selling your current Note?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mcreego:
I really tought about it but I spent 700 euros and now I don't wanna sell it for around 500 :D.

I love Android but all the manufactorers seems to do less quality control then Aplle sigh sigh.

It's not only Samsung....

I have a Transformer and it has light bleeding and some dead pixels... Htc desire dust under screen and back button doesn't work anymore, htc deisre Hd has a small crack between the two part of the backplace, htc Sensation the speaker doesn't work anymore...

Maybe I'm just not lucky with Android phones....

I'm ok with all these problems but when you go claiming for warranty they should not make a lot of problems like "this is not properly a defect of the device":D:D

Anyone knows how to contact someone in Samsung to send them directly the phone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DMax99:
I have suspected and raised this issues before here too. However, the idea totally got smashed by most of the members here :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juanmol:
Hi, I've installed Ubuntu in a loop system, and can login in Graphics Mode with an VNC client on my own Android or in other VNC client on my LAN. I've bought the HDMI output adapter and now i want to redirect the Graphics mode of the looped system to the HDMI. Like "Ubuntu for Android" but in my Note. Of course i will haven't the integration of "Ubuntu for Android" but i have some free time to investigate.

Obviusly i can see the VNC sesion throught the HDMI, but what i really want is not need the VNC clients. It's possible?

(sorry for my poor english)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WereCatf:
Nope, sorry.

In order to use HDMI directly Ubuntu would need direct access to the hardware and the hardware is obviously already in use by Android. Besides most Android - implementations to do not support outputting different image through HDMI than what it shows on the main screen.

In theory it might be possible to drive HDMI separately from the Android side with a modified VNC-application, but that requires some coding skills.
[Galaxy S II General] ashok:
At last the picture and Spec of Galaxy S3 unveiled

http://www.sammobile.com/2012/03/21/breaking-this-is-the-galaxy-s-iii/
[Galaxy S II General] beston94:
I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that we don't need any more Samsung galaxy s3 threads.

Have a good day.
[Galaxy S II General] barisahmet:
another fake
[Galaxy S II General] DSA:
Why do people keep posting galaxy s3 things IN A S2 FORUM?

Fake or not, please stop

This qualifies for a multiquadruple facepalm
[Galaxy S II General] override182:
There is already thread for SGS3 talk. Go there, take a chill pill or jump of your bed. Now
[Galaxy S II General] Goku80:
Asta la vista baby:cool:
[Galaxy S II General] ashok:
Mods please merge with already existing S3 topic. Apologies friends for creating another topic
[Galaxy S II General] zee54:
Definitely looks like a fake ... its just an edited S2 picture. People need to stop getting so excited and wait for an official announcement.

---------- Post added at 10:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:26 AM ----------

LOL +1 :) 10char
[Galaxy S II General] crachel:
Please just use the existing thread here --> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1401781

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spirouzbe:
Hey !

I've searched the web as well as the forum but i didn't find any solution and it seems i'm not the only one wanting to do that.

Is it possible to see hidden folders of internal sdcard through MTP ?

I really talk about hidden folder like ".android_secure", not the photos that aren't yet scanned by the media scanner service.

In my windows environment i already set the view all hidden files/folders as well as view system files.

If i have to change folders permissions through terminal what are the correct permissions i should put ?

Thanks for the help !!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spirouzbe:
Am i the only having that problem ?

Do you guys see the hidden folders through mtp connexion ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VAXXi:
If you'd bother reading a bit before asking questions, you might have the answer already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol

MTP and PTP specifically overcome this issue by making the unit of managed storage a local file rather than an entire (possibly very large) unit of mass storage at the block level. In this way, MTP works like a transactional file system - either the entire file is written/read or nothing.

More or less, it is designed to keep hidden what should be hidden :) stick to USB storage or FTP/SCP.

PS: can't believe we're using a transfer protocol designed by Microsoft in a Linux-based system mastered by Google. The horror, the pain... no wonder it doesn't work on my Mac!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spirouzbe:
Thx for the link ! I knew what mtp is but its always good to refresh things up :)

I read the whole article and unfortunately it doesn't answer my question.

I understood that its the same for all of us meaning that we are not able to see hidden folders.

But the main question is if there is a way to bypass this behavior ? Where is this defined exactly ?

It seems according to the article that its not on the file permission layer ? Should it be at partition level ? How can mtp know what to share with the host ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VAXXi:
It's not a "behaviour" per se, but more/less a database. Remember that media scanner program which wakes up every time you change something on your SD card, be it internal or external ? it simply keeps a "database" of files which are presented to the MTP client (your computer) and hides away the phone's internal folders which are not supposed to be seen by the end-user.

Theoretically, this is done in order to have the iPhone-like behaviour: seeing the entire device memory as one big unified storage which you can fill as you want (no more of those partition size limitations which brought us the app2sd hacks). In my opinion, it's more or less just a small step done in order to "secure" phones for DRM protected content.

Studios and media companies require devices to have such measures of protection in order to allow you to sell media content (like movies, books, etc) and since Google wants to push its business further with the Play Store, it needs to cave in to the studios' demands. In the future, it will probably even become illegal (DMCA-style) for me to give you the information below :)

Back to the technical part of our show now.

At the first boot in the life of the device, Media Scanner will look under /system/media and index everything there. After that, it will scan everything under /mnt/sdcard (hence your external SD card too, if you have one, as it's mounted under /mnt/sdcard/external_sd). On some devices, you have an "internal.db" file and one "external-123xyz.db" file; that's a unique ID of the SD card which was scanned. The idea here is you might have 2-3 SD cards which you swap often, and it's not nice to do a full rescan each time you change the SD card. These databases are in /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media (on my phone, there is only one "external.db" for example).

So what you're looking for is a way to populate this database with all the files found by the Media Scanner. But Media Scanner doesn't want you to see the hidden folders you mentioned above. So, you get an application which doesn't ignore them, like Rescan SD Card! or SDrescan.

Happy now ? :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spirouzbe:
Thank you very much i really enjoyed reading the explanation :-) as it answers completely my questions and it makes sense !

Ill give a try to the apps but i'm also curious to investigate on those files :-)

Cheers

PS. Is this a disguised way to support non open source protocols ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VAXXi:
Well, you could poke around inside the database with sqlite if you want. But don't really see what's so interesting about them.

It is just another protocol which is supported, which happens to be designed by Microsoft (and probably licensed/paid by Google to be used in Android). I understand the technical explanation behind this decision, but I'm also wary that someday UMS will be disabled by default and enabling it will disable content purchasing for that device (just like having a rooted phone now disables some "sensitive" apps, like banking and online TV).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spirouzbe:
As a system admin its interesting to know whats happening on my system :)

As a hobby its interesting for my personal knowledge

And from a development point of view it gives me some ideas for maybe future apps :)

You say that its just another protocol which is supported but to my understanding there are not so many of them ! So i would say that Google was kind of forced to use the MTP method, first from a hardware point of view and second to be compliant with the rest of the world.

Is there any other protocol that could suite their needs ? Since USB mass storage is not usable on some devices and MTP is well spead.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Superior_Android_Plexus:
.HiddenAndroid folders in Win - Here Yesterday, Gone Tomorrow

<Win 7 and GN2>

What's curious and a bit frustrating to me is that, yesterday, when I mounted my device ALL of the hidden (.folders and .files) were visible and searchable. Today, when I went to explore some more, all are gone. I understand that I can use a 3rd party app, just can't figure out why it was visible yesterday and not today.

Hmmph
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PillowMetal:
Did you ever resolve this issue? I really hate MTP for several reasons but this is one of the reasons why! I need to back up all my directories on the SDCard because some apps store them as hidden files in hidden directories. Furthermore, I came across the Play Store bug that requires me to delete a "temp.asec" file in the ".android_secure" directory, but of course it is not visible.

In a post further up it was suggested to use a "Rescan" app to force the DB to include hidden files/directories, but I have tried no less than 4 of these apps, and all they do is trigger the built-in android media scan, which is the problem in the first place!

So has anyone ever been able to access hidden files and directories using MTP?

EDIT: I have an HTC phone that actually shows hidden files and directories, so they have obviously implemented their own media scan. The problem I am currently having is on a Samsung phone (Epic 4G touch)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scandiun:
It may depend on the implementation. For example, using stock rom for the phone doesn't show some files and folders, for example folders starting with dot. But if you use Neatrom Lite it will show all files and folders.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PillowMetal:
Flash forward about 6 years and Samsung still does not show hidden folders/files when viewing the phone contents in Windows File Explorer, but HTC does.

The reason this is still a problem for me, is that I want to backup the contents of a particular directory (WhatsApp) which contains some hidden folders, so I can restore it anytime on a new phone or the same phone.

I recently switched from HTC to Samsung and alas, it seems the problem with this implementation still exists. Anyone found a workaround to this to allow File Explorer to see the hidden folders?

Update: It appears that hidden .nomedia files (and probably others) appear under regular folders, so the problem is limited to hidden folders themselves
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] benward:
Hi

has anybody compiled cifs.ko for this device? I've googled about for it but cannot seem to find anything...

I'm running stock rom, rooted.

Thanks

Ben
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Thomas Vaccarini:
Galaxy Y Duos

And for SGY Duos (S6102)?

I've googled a lot but nothing...

Stock and rooted.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] kurotsugi:
we already have cifs.ko compiled for SGY. its just a little bit unfortunate that only a few of us here know about cifs.ko things. this work is a little bit unapreciated by most user here. you can find the thread here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1636181 you'll need a custom kernel/or a modified one with init.d support to properly load the module at boot. you can make a simple script in init.d to load it.

for the duos...currently we only have one developer for sgy duos. we don't have the module for that device at this moment. since the devices are quite similar you can try to load this module in your device. I'm not sure if it will work but trying it won't harm our device.

btw, you already know about cifs.ko so I assume that you're not a noob in android stuff. I'll really appreciate if you put your next question in FAQ thread.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] djefsane:
Hi guys....

* I am use tablet this " Acer iconia Tab a100 " Honeycomb 3.2.1

* I Am not playing Order & Chaos 1.1.2 version game.

But open 1.0.8 version. playing..

but 1.1.2 version open and cheching licence screen after closed..
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] edzonline:
i have the same problem when a installed a different rom on my O3D
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
You need to install v1.1.0, download additional data and run it, then install v1.1.2 (install it over the previous version), then enjoy ;).
[Nook Touch General] bruce guo:
I just upgraded my nook rom to 1.1.2. In oerder to change fonts in nook internal flash I had to boot with noogie. I didn't want to boot my nook. But when I connected my "rooted forever"(boot from noogie-SD card) nook to PC, I could never find any usb connection to my nook. I'm afraid that noogie doesn't work with nook 1.1.2.

Any ideas that changing nook fonts without rooting it?!!
[Nook Touch General] darkguy2008:
Actually, Noogie.img -does- work with 1.1.2. The first thing I did once I unboxed it was updating it first, then root it.

It must be some problem with your OS. I'd boot with an Ubuntu CD and see if it detects the partitions using gparted (gotta "sudo apt-get install gparted" first).

Good luck.
[Nook Touch General] mali100:
Noogie (and also CWM) are totally independent of the software installed on the device. They are executed before anything else is loaded from the device.
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
Mail100,

Anyway to make Noogie to read side button(s) press to reboot more easily?

My nook doesn't react on rear power button well when Noogie is booted... :(
[Nook Touch General] Googie2149:
To reboot it after using Noogie, you need to take the card out, then hold the power button for about 12 seconds (might be shorter than that, but I just hold it that long). After that, hold it for about 4 seconds. It should boot normally as long as the SD card is out.
[Nook Touch General] zholy:
Ubuntu will solve that. I had the same. I couldn't find my Nook on my Win XP). So I had to download Ubuntu, burn it on the CD, start the computer with Ubuntu from the CD (so I didn't have to install it) ... and after that I was able to see my Nook.
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
How do manage to hold it that long? :eek:

Me freaks out after 5 sec... :(
[Nook Touch General] Googie2149:
I don't remember how long to hold it for, and that might be it turning off anyway.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkhShadow:
Ok so when I updated my tablet from 3.2.1 to 4.0.3 my touchscreen is no longer as accurate, ie when I tap somewhere its not always in the right place it might be like a cm out

I have tried calibrating touchscreen both ways but nada, I didn't have these problems on 3.2.1

Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterpanda:
Same issue for me.

Envoyé depuis mon ARCHOS 80G9 avec Tapatalk
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a83:
same thing in my device (250gb 1.2ghz)
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterpanda:
I am now back in 3.2.80, the only problem is that I return to only 512 MB of RAM instead of 1 GB.

Difficult to choose between a screen sensitivity issue and a RAM divided by 2.

I hope a soon update of ICS.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clay347:
Hey guys I had the same issue with my 80 G9 classic and here is what I did to fix it I cleaned my screen completely and then I did the power and volume down button to get where I could force screen calibration OH MAKE SUPER SURE THAT YOUR TABLET IS ON A COMPLETELY FLAT SURFACE OR IT WANT WORK AND ONCE YOU HAVE DONE THIS REBOOT IT THEN GO INTO SETTINGS AND DO A SCREEN CALIBRATION AND A ACCELEROMETER CALIBRATION AS WELL MAKE SURE IT IS ON A FLAT SURFACE GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS YOU GUYS
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quinny899:
Your ram did not increase in the ics update...
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letama:
Well, in fact, it did. ICS kernel is mandatory to get the full 1G with new Archos G9 ICS models. Honeycomb kernel will only enable 512M on these.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterpanda:
Yes , thx letama, of course it did .

Envoyé depuis mon ARCHOS 80G9 avec Tapatalk
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Denkel:
Hi, I have similar problem, sometimes the screen stop working, it's not a freeze of the tablet cause the buttons works (volume up/down ON/OFF) but not the screen, sometimes even in the middle of using (i.e. writing a post in a forum).

Any idea? Obviously I have tried every touchscreen callibration I have founded...
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quinny899:
He means he has a 512 device and he thought that it increased the ram to 1gig. Software cannot do that. Anyway, I don't think the 1gb models can downgrade can they?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clay347:
New FIRMWARE Is Out Now And It Fixes All The Main Issues 4.0.4 Had Go To ARCHOS WEB SITE AND GET 4.0.5 Its Alot Better GOD BLESS YOU GUYS
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkhShadow:
I still have my issue, I think its less but its still noticable

Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clay347:
Hey Darkhshadow Hey Bro Try This Go Into Recovery And Format Your System Then Select Repair System And Then Force TouchScreen Calibration" BUT MAKE SURE YOUR TABLET IS ON A VERY FLAT SURFACE" Once Done With That Select Reboot And Then Go Into Settings And Select Repair & Formatting And Select TouchScreen Calibration" AGAIN MAKE SURE YOUR TABLET IS ON A COMPLETELY FLAT SURFACE" And Then Select Accelerometer Calibration And Hopefully Bro This Will Help You Get That Bad Boy Straightened Out Also Remember Bro That By Doing This It Will Start You Off Fresh From The Beginning Apps And All Included OK GOD BLESS YOU BRO
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkhShadow:
I'm not going to reset my whole tab because a firmware update isn't 100%, it was 100% fine on honeycomb, no issues what so ever, and the fact others have it means its not my tab, and yes I have recalibrated loads on perfectly flat surfaces, going to email archos soon

Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theguy:
What's to say he only had a 512 device?

I had a 1gb device, it shipped with honeycomb and only 512 was available due to the kernel limitation.

After upgrading to ICS the full 1gb became available thanks to the new kernel.

When I returned to honeycomb the RAM dropped back to 512.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uberNoobZA:
I've got this issue as well.

To test it, I installed some keyboard software that shows dots on the screen 'where you touch' and I did some testing with a capacitive stylus and was shocked at whet it reports for where I am touching the screen. To be honest, I never really used the tablet with Android 3.x as I upgraded right after buying it.

I will try the thing of booting into recovery and doing the calibration there. Might also consider going back to Android 3.x to see how the tablet performs.

-UPDATE- Ok I did the reset and calibrate thing and it did not seem to make a difference. I then installed a program called Touch Test from Android Market and did some testing. It SEEMS that SOME of the inaccuracy is being caused by me using a Capacitive Stylus (Griffin one). If the use my finger (which is way fatter than the stylus), I seem to get more accurate results. I've ordered a different stylus and will see how that works.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g1no23:
I have the same issue. I have used an Amazon Basics stylus and the ZooGue stylus and cannot even draw a straight line in Draw Something. It just feels like the touchscreen isnt sensitive enough even after calibration.
[Galaxy S II General] mineshrai:
Last week, Samsung has released an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for Galaxy S II. If you have not upgraded the device yet and want to know more, then have a look over the PDF document created by CoolSmartphone by converting the PowerPoint slides prepared by Samsung which highlights all the changes...........:)
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Thanks useful guide .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] uncle.baze:
really nice, thanks.