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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xlumenx:
My note, non rooted has a few bugs after upgrade to ics:

- camera sometimes gets stuck on a black screen, only solved by long pressing home button and closing camera. Have not been able to reproduce, seems random.

- my Swype keyboard would freeze my phone and take up 30% of my battery use. After disabling it and switching to TouchPal no more problems with keyboards.

- when I insert my micro SD, formatted in the note with just some music files on it, my battery drains like crazy even though it does go on to deep sleep for some of the time, though not as much as without SD.... I know there was someone else in xda reporting that, can't find the tread back though.

How ever, without Swype and SD card I have my battery life up to an avg. of 12 hours. On GB I used to get an avg of 10 hours with SD in full use . I'm a heavy user, refuse to turn of syncing or WiFi etc as those are some of the reasons I got this phone. I do always reboot after charging as that somehow prevents a 10% drain in the first half hour or so, no problem as it starts up quickly and I love how smooth my Note runs on ICS! Chrome is amazing and I do not regret updating at all.

Any thoughts on the SD card would be welcome though, its strange. I have a SanDisk sdhc 16GB. Any one else have problems with theirs?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] coderedcomputing:
This is an odd one, not sure if mine is the only one but...

Non-rooted, standard Note from Germany, loaded ICS from Kies...

Just noticed that if my phone is in a sleep/locked state and one of my calendar alerts goes off and I do the usual swipe to kill it, I'm taken to the home screen without having to use the gesture/keycode to unlock the phone.

If I hit any of the HW keys it will go from Home to the lock screen... but I was just able to swipe the toolbar down, check / delete emails before I hit the home key and was taken to the locked screen.

Very odd, and somewhat unsecured...

*sigh*

I need to go back to GB if I find time or clear instructions. Samsung told me to take the Note to one of their repair centers! LOL
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Davrat:
If I follow you right that's a ICS feature i.e. you can go direct to the app that created the notification without having to use the unlock screen. But if you are using one of the security methods (PIN, password etc.) you will still need to get past that before you are taken to the app.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Indeed. I received a small square of bubble wrap and a plastic pouch to send the phone. What is the normal way these service centres work? Do they actually fix your phone, or do they just replace it with a re-furbished device? I don't see the phone surviving with just one square of bubble wrap!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Jade.N:
Well it seems we are all facing similar problems but so far no one mentioned laggy flash video streaming. Ever since I upgraded to ICS, I can never stream videos on any browser. I have tried them all. Streaming seems to be laggy and one can never watch a video while streaming.

Is anyone facing this issue? Do you guys have an idea about what can be done to solve this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xlumenx:
Forgot to list this one, after upgrade I can't connect to another device over WiFi anymore. There's another Note, running GB that I could send files to over Wi-Fi when we were both running GB. Now it doesn't even see the other device while scanning.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] galaxytab1:
Brightness can't be changed with that old nifty swipe on notification bar.

It can't be changed by those widgets made for this purpose.

WTF, it can't be changed by Tasker.

Only way to change is deep down the settings menu. The widgets and tasker do actually move the slider inside settings menu, but brightness change only comes into effect once 'ok' is tapped.

This is mega-stupid
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] santoshhh:
Indeed it was the chagers fault. Service centre replaced and gave me a new one yesterday. Its fast e1 if my screen is on.

Finally m happy now..

Thank you rowee once again i was dumb blaming ics nd flashing it twice :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] noteics:
Same issue here

bad update from samsung

Im on rocketrom v6 now great room and stable.

Verstuurd van mijn GT-N7000 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Now that I'm an ex 'note owner, was thinking of going over to sg3, but reading what users have to say about that, I'm thinking, I don't want Android. Or is that Samsung? Not sure. What I do know is, that there's some piss poor QC, codeing, and a certain corporate arrogance from Samsung not to my liking. At least I'm not stuffed on a contract. ;-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Dusty77:
Browser issues

My biggest problems with ics are to do with the stock browser. First of all the handy forward and back buttons are gone. Secondly and highly annoyingly once pressing the menu button the url field stays hidden. For example with GB even when you were browsing a very "deep" sites it was very easy to get the address bar visible by pressing the menu button or alternatively use the pen down swipe. Now I have to scroll all the way back to the top of the page to see the url bar or the bookmark button. Pretty ****e.

I've also experienced the green detuned tv screens couple of time. Pressing the middle button seems to clear it eventually.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
Does your Note still show the popup message when it is fully charged, as it did in GB? Mine doesn't, so I was wondering if it was removed in ICS.

Stock ICS LQ2, LPT Modem, Speedmod k3-3 kernel, AT&T
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] santoshhh:
+1

I guess they removed it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] letters_to_cleo:
My main gripe on the stock ICS is that sometimes, if I toggle my phone to flight mode from ON to OFF or OFF to ON, it doesn't immediately change anything... as if it just stucks there. I have to restart my phone for the change to take into effect.

I'm not sure if it's just me though or someone has this issue also.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Davrat:
I still get the pop-up with stock UK ICS.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Tinderbox (UK):
I use Qbright , it works great on ICS.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...Bright&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
It seems like this could be due to the Speedmod kernel I am on. Could someone confirm this? Thanks.

Stock ICS LQ2, LPT Modem, Speedmod k3-3 kernel, AT&T
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] inurb:
This needs to be fixed asap. Why did Samsung remove this feature? It's been there since the galaxy s. It's such a pain to change the brightness now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Medulla:
This right here is driving me mental! I'm so used to hitting Menu to get access to the bookmarks button that I keep doing it, then realising it doesn't work, then having to scroll all the way to the top of the screen to get access to it; by which time I've usually forgotten what the hell I was going to navigate to. It does seem like a completely needless UI change.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xlumenx:
Have you guys tried Chrome beta? After installing I never went back to stock. I think it has everything you seem to be missing, also a lot more. Better tabbed browsing, sync with desktop Chrome. I love it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wolfmanx:
I thought I was alone with this issue but I experienced the same thing which is quite a random event. I needed to reset the device everytime it happens with a HW key combination. A properly designed and tested OS should be able to prevent such occurrence. I was in high spirits before transitioning from iOS to Android. But with this experience, I'm looking to switch back to iOS. Darn....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] psionic11:
I used to use the notification bar swipe to adjust the brightness all the time on GB. It aggravated me at first not having the option on ICS.

But I use Screen Adjuster now, and it works just as well and just as easily.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anthony8655:
gps doesn't work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Aria_Cop:
I must inform that when i upgrade to ICS, my device GPS and voice talk did not work.

BUT when I do a “factory data reset” ALL programs and Hardwares works FINE now.

if you faced with these problem do a factory reset and it will works fine.

also web browsing is realy faster and WiFi strength is slightly better now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hykhleif:
my random reboot problem

hello everyone

I went thru hell to figure out which app is causing the reboot on my samsung galaxy note with stock ICS when listening to music on my sony car stereo through blwuettoth every 30 minutes

After I removed all apps and kept only Poweramp app I noticed that it is Poweramp that is causing this reboot every 30 mintes while lsitening to music on my sony stereo through bluetooth streaming.

So I removed Poweramp, and played music thourgh the stock music player on my car stereo through bluetooth and guess what all reboots are gone.

Why is power amp causing this bug something is not sitting well with Poweramp, bluetooth and ics

phone: smasung galaxy note

android: stock ics 4.03

Poweramp 2.0.5-build-488 Full Version
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] darkion2411:
yeahhh :):)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
There seems to be a number of apps that appear to cause re-boots. Can I suggest reporting your experience to the app author, as their involvement would be helpful. I get the feeling that ICS isn't quite there yet, it is more of what a lot of guys experienced with windows vista :eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ilordvader:
I formated my Internal SD & then did Factory reset

My Phone works Great now & has better Battery Life too

I have done this couple of times

Wonder why everybody keeps saying dont Factory rest ???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Because the factory re-set with ICS can brick your phone. Lots written about it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] katyarevishal:
So nice i felt after reading this :D I thought i was alone ! me too faced this twice till now. Very awkward in front of frnds :mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chrismcnally:
I think I have the same BT headphones, sony right? Did you try pairing again? my play pause button does work on Stock ICS from Samsung (German Note)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hagba:
After updating through OTA I had too many problems,I went back to GB via PC Odin and updated with KIES to ICS,and after a simple step which enhanced the touch sensitivity (Disabled the Automatic Brightness in the Settings > Display),now my Note simply flyes.

This is a Standard Quadrant test::good::good::D:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Cedup:
Got this, too!! So sick...

Additionally,

-Camera stops to operate,

-battery drains very fast,

-random stucks -> black screen,

-cant change brightness of my screen via swiping over the status bar anymore ... -.-
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jamesd256:
Got my note on Friday, and foolishly accepted the OTA ICS.

Now the phone lags like hell, eg: 5-8 seconds holding home before running apps list comes up. 5 seconds for single home press to go to home screen.

Also, the top part of the phone gets quite warm in normal use, which I really notice when it goes back in my pocket.

Shoulda held back a while and just enjoyed GB while I had it.

If it's true that GB only used one CPU core, as I have read, and it was quite snappy, then using two cores in ICS should open up awesome performance, no? Fail Samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Join the club. :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hagba:
After using it for sometime:

1-miserable battery life.

2-too much heat at the upper side, as indicated in the above post.

3-sometimes the browser doesn't respond to double tabs.

Feels more like an old OS in a modern interface.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ilordvader:
Do what i did

format ur Internal SD card

& do factory rest

mine is not a Rooted phone so it doesnt Brick my Phone :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hagba:
Mine isn't rooted either, did a complete SD Card wipe already but I think it was before updating with the Kies, so tomorrow will give another try, hopefully things will be better afterwards.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] abhinav quietly brilliant:
the worst thing on ics is battery backup i have to charge my note atleast two times a day but on gb when i charge once then no need to charge it for next 1.5 day
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ilordvader:
After i got Apex

I feel im draing battery :(

or maybe some other apps eating my battery life
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] baldimir:
Battery life

I also had bad battery life, but I checked what is synchronizing in accounts list and found out that google account synchronizes more things than on gingerbread. So I disabled Internet and Instant upload synchronization and my battery life is much better. Also Firefox brutally drained my battery (Had not a single problem with it on gingerbread).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AnuragB56:
My friend and I have both faced this issue. I've scoured the Web but couldn't find any other instance of this, until now that is! It's insane! Must be a problem with the graphics chip. Happened when I had Gingerbread and happened again last night on ICS. :banghead:

I tried taking a screen shot of it but it gave me a crystal clear screen shot of the background. Has to be a hardware issue. My friend got his screen replaced the other day coz he dropped it and the screen smashed so I'll wait and see whether he has the same problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AnuragB56:
My friend and I have both faced this issue. I've scoured the Web but couldn't find any other instance of this, until now that is! It's insane! Must be a problem with the graphics chip. Happened when I had Gingerbread and happened again last night on ICS. :banghead:

I tried taking a screen shot of it but it Others may think otherwise me a crystal clear screen shot of the background. Has to be a hardware issue. My friend got his screen replaced the other day coz he dropped it and the screen got smashed so I'll wait and see whether he has the same problem.

ICS India, not rooted.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Volcanodancer:
I have had the untuned TV problem too. The screen goes crazy!

UK on Vodafone with stock.

Since the little update I received on Friday I haven't been too happy. Had to reinstall virtually every app due to black screen crashes.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tyfting:
My note became very slow and laggy after the change to ics, its really horrible.

Running

Rooted stock
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AnuragB56:
I honestly thought my friend and I were sold defective pieces here but as it turns out, it seems to be a global issue. I just hope that the CEO of Samsung is using a Note and the same thing happens to his phone. Instant results after that eh! :D

But seriously, I hope something can be done about it before my warranty lapses!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AnuragB56:
Hi,

So, the screen went crazy again last night! Again, took a screen shot of it but it just showed me the app I was on in the background. Fortunately or unfortunately, the screen stayed that way till I hit the power button. I had enough time to take a photo of it using a friends phone. Check it out :
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ilordvader:
Same Issue here

big lag when i scroll contacts & if i edit it lags & crashes every time :(

then have keep pressing home & do it all over again
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] $#VIRUS#$:
Even I had the same problem couple of times and as you same way I did hit power button after that everything comes back to normal.

Also other issues seems to be big laggy on contacts, dialer and messaging.

Also problems with kernel wakelocks l2_hsic and fuel_alerted.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ali.hatem88:
my problems are:

1) i use arabic alot so when i want type i have to use the shift key every time and tiring

2) battery drain fast

3)viber sound quality is poor
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Thats the one. Mine was the same.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] NiceMrMustard:
From what I had gathered, there was some kind of compatibility with previous versions in each new Android iteration. However, as I get more familiar with the ecosystem, I see more and more exceptions to that rule and it increasingly seems to me that the releases are just too frequent.

I won't compare Android with the Apple stuff because as a Unix old timer I've been there (on the PC side) and ran back, swearing I wouldn't be caught in that trap again, but as much as I adhere to (most of) the Android way, fragmentation is a problem that will have to be addressed at some point.

Between greed (device makers prematurely dropping support), lack of competence (users not knowing, or daring), lack of information... things get messy fairly quickly. Having a new version of the system twice a year doesn't help. Especially with such a poor compatibility track...

One can only hope it'll get better as the platform matures. But will it ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Askzra:
my problems are:

1) MMS > solved using third party sms app

2)Battery > when awake,a bit fast depleting, 5-10 min can drop 1%, but when not use,nearly full bar deep sleep. current % can stay overnight ( confirmed it myself)

3)FC > some apps unresponsive. dont know how to fix it yet.

4)Screen flickering > Fixed,removed apps that gave that problem.

i think thats all..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Unless the dependency between the manufacturer and the OS can be broken, then its an up-hill struggle. I dont concider Android to be open source in they way we would consider Unix or Linux to be and that's down to the fact we are 'Locked' to the makers distro. Hacking to get custom mods is just that, hacking, and we have seen what that can lead to. In this sense, android is no different to how Apple operate. Ultimately, we are looking for a hardware solution not dissimilar to that of the PC, where you can run just about whatever you want. Microsoft 'might' in a perverse way, help achieve that. Competence of the user is an issue, and I'm gobsmacked at how illiterate todays generation is, when it comes to OS, the configuration, and HW/SW compatibility. All not helped by lack of information from hardware manufacturers powered by greed and self interest.

In a nutshell: I don't void my PC warranty by formatting the hard drive and swapping operating system, so why should it cork my Tablet?? A lot of progress still to be achieved.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chrismcnally:
I have an issue with ICS and my keyboard hiding unexpectedly. I'll be typing in email. XdA or the browser and the keyboard hides

And i end up tapping somewhere I didn't mean to.

This happened a lot with Siine and it's ten times worse with Ithe Samsung keyboard
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Spo0f:
Someone managed to "fix" the lag on desktop/drawer transitions?

I mean - wasn't it HW accelerated? Among all BS with 4.0.4 (LRI) this lag and shuttering while "scrolling" desktop/drawer drives me nuts ...

And I did factory reset on GB before updating to ICS.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] safuan7822:
Did u guys get the new updates recently? It shud fix stability and new keybords layout plus movie box similar to siii. Not to forget signature security. Ive installed mine and i hv to say my note now is smoother than b4. Batt life has improved.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] santoshhh:
I updated through kies everything is nice so far. Movie box is still d same as before.. Not like s3.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] abuyossi:
lock screen widgets don't work properly

any widget that locks the screen won't lock the screen - either the screen goes off for a second and then the lock screen comes on, or the screen comes back on for a second before going off (with one particular app). it will only lock properly when the power button is pressed.

i saw one app lock screen app in google play that at least admits it won't work with android 4.0.4, so it is an known issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] willstay:
I am little bugged by short battery life in ICS (4.0.4) with NoteCore12.5 kernel. While sleeping (wifi off, data off, location off) it sipped 3% in 6 hours which is in par with GB. But when screen is on (when I am actually using phone), battery sips really fast like 1% every 2 minutes. Usage graph shows majority of power consumed by Screen; when using same usage pattern in GB, Android System and Screen used to take equal percentages.

So I toggled Force GPU rendering (Settings -> Developer Options) on and off to see if anything changes, but nothing.

My usual pattern is charge late in the evening. Fully charged before I sleep. 2 to 3% depleted when I wake up, 90% when I head to work. Very light usage at work and when I get home 70%. Heavy use at home and 40% before I plug charger.

Now with ICS, It is 10% when I plug charger. Yes ICS is butter smooth but I can let it go for longer battery life and in few days I may switch back to GB.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Markuzy:
I am still on GB.

Pretty depressing to see a thread with over 140 replies about this.

I really want the new features ICS supports but not at the cost of basic user experience...

Perhaps I should wait for JB and then flash that later.

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sami3000:
Only battery here. If they fix this I am in heaven
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] frazzle121180:
I get battery discharge after less than a days use.

Also when using wireless the top back of the phone gets incredibly hot and overheating warnings pop up.

Went back to stock gb and everything spot on Again
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] inurb:
My battery life is horrendous on stock ICS. I can get maybe 4-5 hours of battery life if I web browse on lowest brightness setting. Deep Sleep issue is at work here. 90% of the time the phone is running at 200MHz even when sleeping. I hope they fix this in 4.0.4 otherwise I have to go back to GB.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] klem__:
Battery drain try this

Hi all for the battery drain (phone not going on deep sleep) this is a tip I most of teh time use:

plug the phone to charger or computer

unlock the phone (unlock the screen)

unplug the phone first from the phone and then from the computer or charger

this should help your phone go in deep sleep check it with cpu spy

CPU Spy Market link

if not working try another tip this below link

Another tip

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1507905
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] altae:
I use the goku kernel and I have not had any deep sleep issues for a very long time. For me ICS in combination with goku works just fantastically

Sent from my Galaxy Note running ICS
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zedan2001:
Same suffering..... :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] soulhouf_w:
I updated today to 4.04. After reboot i cant use no more phone functions (when i dial a number it says that i'm not registred on network) .

I tryed to open network settings but i had an error message saying that i must insert a simcard.

Any idea to fix this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] scarlet_sg:
i had the same issue with ICS 4.0.3 so reverted back to GB but after i flashed ICS 4.0.4 everything seems to have been fixed. phone going into deep sleep and i'm getting almost 2 days out of 1 charge. i usually have quite a heavy call usage, anywhere from 50 to 80 mins of calls per day add to that the usual emails and facebooks and web surfing... and im usually left with about 40-50% left at 7pm

just make sure you do a clean install (wipe data and cache from a safe GB rom - I repeat GB rom) before flashing ICS 4.0.4 and it should be fine. I am having the same or almost the same battery drain as GB now and couldn't be happier.. i'm using LR2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ztrindberg:
I am having problems reconnect wifi after phone sleep.

It came after update to ICS I think.

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